"This sort of invasiveness is also precisely the reason we have a Second Amendment protecting our right to keep and bear arms, or as Jefferson wrote '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.'"Īs noted by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, "this quotation has not been found in any of the writings of Thomas Jefferson." Writing on the Patriot Act, Paul again cites a fake Jefferson quote. "This exact quotation has not been found in any of the writings of Thomas Jefferson," writes the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. Jefferson wrote, "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government." This has certainly been true of too much government intervention, as well as attempts to administer too many government benefits. In their wisdom, the Founding Fathers- whose Constitution was supposed to restrain our rulers- would have likely made the same prediction. "We currently have no evidence to confirm that Thomas Jefferson ever said or wrote" this phrase, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation has said of "the price of liberty was eternal vigilance," which Paul uses twice in his book.Įarlier, Paul used another fake Jefferson quote: Thomas Jefferson believed that the price of liberty was eternal vigilance - and now the Tea Party must prove it. It is not a job that will be finished overnight or even in an election cycle. The Tea Party's job is to keep making things clearer, and this is only the beginning. The final line in Paul's book The Tea Party Goes to Washington is a fake sentiment attributed to Jefferson: Paul's first two books - Government Bullies, which was an e-book best-seller, and The Tea Party Goes to Washington - lay out the conservative manifesto he hoped to bring to Washington following the tea party wave in 2010.Ī heavy theme in Paul's books is that the tea party movement is the intellectual heir to the Founding Fathers, with Paul often arguing he knows what position our country's earliest leaders would have had on certain issues. "It is the duty of the patriot to protect its country from its government.Many of the quotes attributed to the Founding Fathers in two of Rand Paul's books are either fake, misquoted, or taken entirely out of context, BuzzFeed News has found. "It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority." "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God" "It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins." "When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles every other correction is either useless or a new evil." The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be under the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." President James Madison "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. "If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be under the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." "The means of defense against a foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." "If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." "Guard against impostures of pretended patriotism." "Overgrown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to liberty." Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." "When the people fear the government, there is tyranny when the government fears the people, there is liberty." "Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day."
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." A few quotes by the Founding Fathers on the threat of tyranny.
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