Smart Man - 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 

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. 
Thomas Jefferson 

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. 
Thomas Jefferson 

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. 
Thomas Jefferson 

* may also be prudent to add the TV and Radio at this time as well as the Net*

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. 
Thomas Jefferson

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. 
Thomas Jefferson 

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto. 
Thomas Jefferson

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. 
Thomas Jefferson 

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

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. 
Thomas Jefferson 

Every generation needs a new revolution. 
Thomas Jefferson 

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

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. 
Thomas Jefferson 

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. 
Thomas Jefferson