When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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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.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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