DEDICATED TO SAVING THE REPUBLIC AND PRESERVING THE U.S. CONSTITUTION.

                           THOMAS JEFFERSON

• Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.
• I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
• The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.
• I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
• When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
• I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
• What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?
• 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.
• Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
• The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
• Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.
• 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.
• The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
• Most bad government has grown out of too much government.
• The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.
• A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise 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.
• Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?
• History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
• If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
• The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
• The man who reads nothing at all is better than educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Dedicated to saving the republic and preserving the U.S. Constitution.