We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONGood wine is a necessity of life for me.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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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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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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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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