#Quote
More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
Free men do not ask permission to bear arms
The federal government is our servant, not our master.
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
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.
To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
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.
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.
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
