Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The dead should not rule the living.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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