thomas jefferson quotes

"When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. 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."

-Thomas Jefferson



"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...

"And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), November 13, 1787, letter to William S. Smith, quoted in Padover's Jefferson On Democracy, ed., 1939

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"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way."

Josh Billings

I have a tendency to fuck things up

-Heather Gilbert, September 2008

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop
thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."

George W. Bush
August 5, 2004
Washington, D.C.

EINSTEIN QUOTES

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.


"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

"No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"


Albert Einstein