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More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
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.
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.
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.
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.
To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
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 well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none
