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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -- Thomas Jefferson
Freedom Quotes
TRUTHS
Self-evident
Happiness
Thomas Jefferson
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
4thOfJuly
Heart
Godly
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Law
Rebellion
Duty
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.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Religious
Men
Issues
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Government
People
Liberty
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.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thinking
Government
Two
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Safety
Individual
Justification
A true patriot will defend his country from its government.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Country
Government
Patriot
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.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Evil
Voting
Principles
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Achieve
Abandon
Security
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.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Men
Gun
Law
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.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Fall
Government
Hands
To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Effort
Trying
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Courage
Patriotic
Men
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.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
PursuitOfHappiness
Government
People
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.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Army
People
Liberty
Free men do not ask permission to bear arms
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Men
Arms
Libertarian
The Bible makes the best people in the world.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
People
World
The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
CivilRights
Abandon
Presses
The federal government is our servant, not our master.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Government
Masters
Servant
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