When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIn questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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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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