Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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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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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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