The dead should not rule the living.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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