“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have.” Thomas Jefferson
“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have.” Thomas Jefferson
”Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.” Thomas Jefferson
“When all governments, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as a center of power, it will render powerless the checks provided by one government over another and it will become just as…
“Governments are instituted among men, deriving their powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to…
“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.” Thomas Jefferson
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” Thomas Jefferson
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.” Thomas Jefferson
“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” Thomas Jefferson
“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. I like…
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until…