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 JEFFERSONHe who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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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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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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 think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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 not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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