More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
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 press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
Free men do not ask permission to bear arms
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.
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 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
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
