When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
THOMAS JEFFERSONBut 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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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 never repent of having eat too little.
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