I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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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.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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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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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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