More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
A true patriot will defend his country from its government.
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.
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
Free men do not ask permission to bear arms
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
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.
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none
The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
