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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

Thomas Jefferson

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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