It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.
- Thomas Jefferson
More Quotes By Thomas Jefferson
- A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just...
- We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by...
- [The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws,...
- The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of...
- The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with...
- Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get...
- Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny...
- Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise...
- When all government …in little as in great things… shall be drawn to Washington as the center of...
- By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press,...
- How to check these unconstitutional invasions of rights by the Federal judiciary? Not by impeachment in the first...
- Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights...
- Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other...
- Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it...
- No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey...
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