More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
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.
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.
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none
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 course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.
