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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhen injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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