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 JEFFERSONI’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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