More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Free men do not ask permission to bear arms
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.
