when the people fear the governemnt it is called tyranny, when the government fears the people , it is called liberty

I hope i am completly quoting that correctly??

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.~Attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but without a citation.

Possibly apochryphal, or a paraphrase of something he said.
http://www.monticello.org/library/reference/spurious.html

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Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well~Peter Ustinov

When the government fears the people, it is liberty.
When the people fear the government, it is tyranny.

-Thomas Paine