More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.
To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
The federal government is our servant, not our master.
A true patriot will defend his country from its government.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
