Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhenever 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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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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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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