Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHe who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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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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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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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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