Degenerates Quote by Thomas Jefferson

The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of…

— Thomas Jefferson

No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people.

— Cornelius Nepos

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.

— Thomas Jefferson

The people themselves, not their government, should be trusted with spending their own money and making their own decisions.

— Dick Armey

Do not trust governments more than governments trust their own people.

— Andrei Sakharov

I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above…

— Tony Abbott

Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work…

— Anonymous

No government can be trusted, that does not trust its own people with military-style arms of greater weight and power than those possessed by…

— Vin Suprynowicz

A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Governments are run by people. People can be bad.

— Jesse Ventura

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

— Cornelius Nepos

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public…

— George Bancroft