The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
THOMAS JEFFERSONLeave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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 believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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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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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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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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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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