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More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
A true patriot will defend his country from its government.
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
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.
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
The Bible makes the best people in the world.
Free men do not ask permission to bear arms
