More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.
To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.
The federal government is our servant, not our master.
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
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.
The Bible makes the best people in the world.
