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 JEFFERSONThe boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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I cannot live without books.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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