No people can be both ignorant and free.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIf once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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 have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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