A Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson
American - President
April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Thomas Jefferson

Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.

Laurence Overmire

Dependence leads to subservience.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson, the leading Enlightenment figure in the United States, along with Benjamin Franklin, who took exactly the same view, argued that dependence will lead to "subservience and venality", and will "suffocate the germs of virtue". And remember, by dependence he meant wage labor, which was considered an abomination under classical liberal principles.

Noam Chomsky

Secrecy begets tyranny.

Robert A. Heinlein

The Way begets one; one begets two; two begets three; three begets the myriad creatures.

Laozi

Fearlessness begets happiness, which begets creativity, which begets innovation, which begets profits.

Ben Chestnut

Those which defend liberty, equality and fraternity, seem to us superior to those which accept tyranny, the subservience of women, social and ethnic hatred.

Claude Gueant

It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

Aristotle

Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.

George Washington

Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.