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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.

Thomas Jefferson

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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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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 cannot live without books.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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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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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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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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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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