To take from one...

[karl]

"To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." - Thomas Jefferson

[karl]

Here are some more:

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (The Founders expressed openly their contempt for those who would sacrifice liberty in the attempt to obtain security.)

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” (Quoting Cesare Beccaria) [This is a self-evident truth to which liberal slogans have blinded many shallow thinkers.]

"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it."

"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits." (What about bailouts and other forms of welfare?)

"No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him." (Liberals would disagree with Jefferson here - they claim that poor people have a natural right to take, by force of government, the property of rich people.)

"I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." (Back then!)

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." (Sounds like a Tea Party sign in the making.)