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 JEFFERSONWhen injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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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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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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