I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happinessto himself from the exercise of power over others. -- Thomas JeffersonNo man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another,and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him. -- Thomas Jefferson

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Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it isunobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructedaction according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights ofothers. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but thetyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. --Thomas JeffersonWhat country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time totime that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? -- Thomas JeffersonIn every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. -- ThomasJeffersonThat government is best which governs least. -- Thomas JeffersonEvery citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans,and must be that of every free state. -- Thomas JeffersonIt is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collectedtogether, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately. --Thomas JeffersonThe 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. -- ThomasJeffersonThe laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such nature. They disarmonly those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... such lawsserve rather to encourage than to prevent homocides, for an unarmed man may beattacked with greater confidence than an armed man. -- Thomas JeffersonThe will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and toprotect its free expression should be our first object. -- Thomas JeffersonThe central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing againstthe Principles and form of our Constitution. I am an Enemy to all banksdiscounting bills or notes for anything but Coin. If the American People allowprivate banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation andthen by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them willdeprive the People of all their Property until their Children will wake uphomeless on the continent their Fathers conquered. -- Thomas Jefferson

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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gainground. -- Thomas JeffersonWhat signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must berefreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is itsnatural manure. -- Thomas Jefferson

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When governments fear people, there is liberty. When the people fear thegovernment, there is tyranny. -- Thomas Jefferson

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