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An excellent collection of Thomas Jefferson Quotes on Tyranny Will Fuel You with Inspiration.
Thomas Jefferson was a great personality and Founding Father who served as the Third President of the United States of America from 1801 to 1809. He was a multifaceted personality and was a lawyer, diplomat, architect, and author.
Thomas Jefferson is famous for his notable work in writing the Declaration of Independence and is also known for serving two terms as president.
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10 Short Thomas Jefferson Quotes on Tyranny
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.
Every generation needs a new revolution.
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.
When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
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Famous Thomas Jefferson Quotes on Tyranny
The two enemies of the people are criminals and the 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.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
The 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.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences of attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and protecting its free expression should be our first object.
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
Honor, justice, and humanity call upon us to hold and transmit to our posterity that liberty we received from our ancestors.
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
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.
Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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.
The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
