Thought I would just look up some quotes from Thomas Jefferson -- Helps to focus on what was going on at the time of our founding to review some quotes in time from the founders.
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.--- This last one we should pay particular attention to, what man knows about global wamring, you could write a book, what he doesn't know, would fill a library.
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Delay is preferable to error.
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
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