I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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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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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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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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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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