Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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 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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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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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