More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
The federal government is our servant, not our master.
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.
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
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.
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
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 reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
The Bible makes the best people in the world.
