I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHe who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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