"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
― Thomas Jefferson
Topic(s):
Government
More From Thomas Jefferson
- "It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God."
- "To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education."
- "Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits."
More In Government
- "We live under a government of men and morning newspapers."― Wendell Phillips
- "The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised."― John C. Calhoun
- "History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior."― Vladimir Putin