Title: Jefferson, Thomas
jofortruth - May 11, 2007 02:26 AM (GMT)
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| "Where the people fear the government you have tyranny; where the government fears the people, you have liberty." |
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| "Dissention is the greatest form of Patriotism." |
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| "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." |
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| "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies." |
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| "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." |
jofortruth - February 2, 2010 04:50 PM (GMT)
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| "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." -- Thomas Jefferson |
jofortruth - March 6, 2010 05:20 PM (GMT)
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| "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." --Thomas Jefferson |
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| "The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume." --Thomas Jefferson to A. H. Rowan, 1798. |
jofortruth - March 12, 2010 01:21 AM (GMT)
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| "If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." Thomas Jefferson (1762-1821), Third President of the USA, author of the Declaration of Independence. |
jofortruth - July 10, 2011 01:30 PM (GMT)
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"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." -- Proposed Virginia Constitution, 1776
"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." -- Jefferson's "Commonplace Book," 1774-1776, quoting from On Crimes and Punishment, by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764
-- Thomas Jefferson |
