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More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.
When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
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.
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.
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
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.
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
