More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
The federal government is our servant, not our master.
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
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.
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.
The Bible makes the best people in the world.
The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.
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.
Free men do not ask permission to bear arms
