Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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