More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
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.
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
Free men do not ask permission to bear arms
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.
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none
The Bible makes the best people in the world.
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.
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
