How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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 issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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