The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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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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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 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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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