More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
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.
The Bible makes the best people in the world.
The federal government is our servant, not our master.
To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.
Free men do not ask permission to bear arms
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
