<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Thomas Jefferson Quotes</title><description>Quotes from the US Founding Father.Thomas Jefferson</description><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/father/id/6</link><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/706</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/706</guid><title>Thomas Jefferson Quote</title><description><![CDATA[Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a 
day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and 
pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove
a deliberate, systematical plan of reducing us to slavery]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/705</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/705</guid><title>Thomas Jefferson Quote</title><description><![CDATA[Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits. Without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them.]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/701</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/701</guid><title>Thomas Jefferson Quote</title><description><![CDATA[A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves. They include all men capable of bearing arms. To preserve liberty is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike how to use them.]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/698</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/698</guid><title>Thomas Jefferson Quote</title><description><![CDATA[No Freeman shall ever be disbarred from the use of arms. Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion in private self-defense.]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/696</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/696</guid><title>Thomas Jefferson Quote</title><description><![CDATA[When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/695</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/695</guid><title>Thomas Jefferson Quote</title><description><![CDATA[The greatest [calamity] which could befall [us would be] submission to a government of unlimited powers.]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/692</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/692</guid><title>Thomas Jefferson Quote</title><description><![CDATA[The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/690</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/690</guid><title>Thomas Jefferson Quote</title><description><![CDATA[I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/688</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/688</guid><title>Thomas Jefferson Quote</title><description><![CDATA[And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the priciple of spending money to be paid by posterity, uner the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/680</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/680</guid><title>Thomas Jefferson Quote</title><description><![CDATA[I am a Christian, that is to say a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole country will soon be rallied to the unity of our Creator and, I hope, to the pure doctrine of Jesus also.]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/668</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/668</guid><title>Thomas Jefferson Quote</title><description><![CDATA[In questions of power then let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/666</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/666</guid><title>Thomas Jefferson Quote</title><description><![CDATA[Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we ba...sely entail hereditary bondage upon them.]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/665</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/665</guid><title>Thomas Jefferson Quote</title><description><![CDATA[On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already?]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/664</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/664</guid><title>Thomas Jefferson Quote</title><description><![CDATA[The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.]]></description></item><item><link>http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/663</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.foundingfatherquotes.com/quote/663</guid><title>Thomas Jefferson Quote</title><description><![CDATA[When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.]]></description></item></channel></rss>