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More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
Free men do not ask permission to bear arms
A true patriot will defend his country from its government.
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
The federal government is our servant, not our master.
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.
To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
