Thomas Jefferson Tyranny In Government Quotes

#1. The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the legislature is the most formidable dread at present and will be for many years. That of the executive will come in its turn, but it will be at a remote period.

Thomas Jefferson

#2. Though Duty's face is stern, her path is best: They sweetly sleep who die upon her breast.

Henry Abbey

#3. Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

#5. The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own.

Charles Hodge

#6. When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

#7. No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind ... The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.

Vernon Howard

#8. Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!

Thomas Jefferson

#9. Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large ...

Thomas Jefferson

#10. The simple and most complex answer is love.

J.D. Robb

#11. The government must rethink its strategy toward the Bedouin, or else those in the area who are armed will turn it into the war that Cairo seems to be pushing for.

John R. Bradley

#12. We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Thomas Jefferson

#13. To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.

Thomas Jefferson

#14. I abandoned my second novel completely. Writing 'Kavalier & Clay,' I had several moments of utter collapse. Same with 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union.'

Michael Chabon

#15. To reveal the necessity of the kingdom to others is to live by it

Sunday Adelaja

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

Thomas Jefferson