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Of course, I can only imagine what the Left would call this man, today.....
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."
"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it."
"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits."
"To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."
"I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
"I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?"
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all."
"When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality."
"Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread."
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
"Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add “within the limits of the law,” because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual."
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"I have sworn on the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
"Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one."
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
"Most bad government has grown out of too much government."
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
"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."
"A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government."
"I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others."
"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?"
"A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate."
"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for."
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."
"The man who reads nothing at all is better than educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
---Thomas Jefferson
LINKS:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_jefferson.html
http://jpetrie.myweb.uga.edu/TJ.html
http://www.notable-quotes.com/j/jefferson_thomas.html
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."
"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it."
"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits."
"To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."
"I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
"I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?"
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all."
"When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality."
"Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread."
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
"Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add “within the limits of the law,” because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual."
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"I have sworn on the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
"Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one."
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
"Most bad government has grown out of too much government."
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
"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."
"A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government."
"I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others."
"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?"
"A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate."
"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for."
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."
"The man who reads nothing at all is better than educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
---Thomas Jefferson
LINKS:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_jefferson.html
http://jpetrie.myweb.uga.edu/TJ.html
http://www.notable-quotes.com/j/jefferson_thomas.html
