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More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
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.
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.
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.
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
