Thomas Jefferson knew

Here are some thoughts taken from another forum

The founding fathers of this country, knew first hand the kind of tyranny would tear this nation apart, so they created the Bill Rights so WE THE PEOPLE could have control. WE THE PEOPLE have become blind and deaf to the events that are slowing enslaving us.

Please read these wonderful quotes by my hero Thomas Jefferson:

1)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.

2)A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.

3)All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent

4)Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

5)Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories

6)I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

7)My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

8)Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

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

10)A government big enough to supply you with everything you need, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have.