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 JEFFERSON
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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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