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More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
Free men do not ask permission to bear arms
A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
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.
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
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.
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
The federal government is our servant, not our master.
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
