Miscellaneous Thoughts on President’s Day  by Thomas Jefferson, Founder of the Democrat Party

• ·      No free man shall ever be disbarred the use of arms.
  
  
• ·      The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
  
  
• ·      The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
  
  
• ·      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.
  
  
• ·      The democracy will cease to exist when we take away from those that are willing to work and give to those who would not.
  
  
• ·      To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes, the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.
  
  
• ·      It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debt’s as it goes. A principle which if acted upon would save one-half the wars of the world.
  
  
• ·      My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
  
  
• ·      When we get piled on one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.