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More Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
The Bible makes the best people in the world.
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.
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.
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
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.
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.
