Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhen injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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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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