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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNo people can be both ignorant and free.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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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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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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