For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. – Thomas Jefferson
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. – Thomas Jefferson
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. – Thomas Jefferson
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state. – Thomas Jefferson