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More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.
When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
Free men do not ask permission to bear arms
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, invented and put into the papers whatever might serve the [government] ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper.
The federal government is our servant, not our master.
The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
