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• A monied aristocracy in our country ... has already set the government at defiance.
  -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)...
• The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
  -- Thomas Jefferso...
• What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
  If men were angels, no government would be necessary. -- Thomas Jefferso...
• Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself.
  Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?" -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)...
• Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself.
  Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?...
• The First Amendment has erected a wall of separation between church and state, but that wall is a one directional wall
  it keeps the government from running the church, but it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government....
• It is error alone which needs the support of government.
  Truth can stand by itself. -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), Notes on Virginia...
• That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
  -- Thomas Jefferso...
• A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on Earth.
  .. and what no just government should refuse. -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, Paris, Dec....