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Posts from Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson

"No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms.
The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.1F65

"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others."
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.FB09

"When the government fears the people there is liberty;
when the people fear the government there is tyranny."
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.0CC8

"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 rights of the individual."
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.7369

"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 a little rebellion now and then.
It is like a storm in the atmosphere."
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.492A

"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 it's 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."
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.EFEC

"Every citizen should be a soldier.
This was the case with the Greeks and Romans,
and must be that of every free state."
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.B723

"[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty."
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.735C

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