The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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I cannot live without books.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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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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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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