I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhen injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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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 natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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