THOMAS JEFFERSON QUOTE ABOUT TYRANNY

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”

“When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”

“A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.”

“The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.”

“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”

“Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematical plan of reducing us to slavery.”

“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.”

“Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.”

“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”

“Ignorance and biennial government is dangerous to the preservation of our liberties.”

“I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That ‘all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people.’ To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power not longer susceptible of any definition.”

“I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.”

“To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.” QUOTES ABOUT TRIO BEST FRIENDS

“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”

“The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.”

“Speech, less restrictive than anywhere in the world, holds up a mirror to our own nature for good and for evil.”

“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.”

“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual.”

“The will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, but that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect and to violate would be oppression.”

“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”

“Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.”

“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”

“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”

“The most effectual means of preventing tyranny of the government is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large.”