The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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I cannot live without books.
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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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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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