More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.
The federal government is our servant, not our master.
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
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.
A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
The Bible makes the best people in the world.
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.
