politics Quotes

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

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.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.