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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONBe polite to all, but intimate with few.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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 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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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 more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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