More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
The Bible makes the best people in the world.
Free men do not ask permission to bear arms
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.
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.
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
A true patriot will defend his country from its government.
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
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.
