Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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