I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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 believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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