“When all government, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the Center of all Power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“A strong body makes a strong mind. As to the species of exercise I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Let your gun, therefore, be the constant companion of your walks.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security”
-Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams did not attend the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia and neither one signed the document.
