When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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 natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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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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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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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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