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More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
Free men do not ask permission to bear arms
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
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 you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
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.
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none
The Bible makes the best people in the world.
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
