The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
THOMAS JEFFERSONExperience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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