Favorite Quotes

[DavidD]

I saw a George Washington quote in another thread and it made me think of some of my favorite Thomas Jefferson Quotes. Here's my (Dave's ) top ten:

10. If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

9. 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.

8. Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

7. 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.

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

5. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

4. The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

3. When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

2. 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.

And Dave's number 1 Favorite Thomas Jefferson Quote is The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

[Guest canynracer]

Thomas Jefferson

"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it."

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their 'constitutional' right of amending it or their 'revolutionary' right to dismember or overthrow it." Abraham Lincoln,

The said constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. - Samuel Adams

But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. - Declaration of Independence

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! - Ben Franklin

Those are a few of my favorites