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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

Thomas Jefferson

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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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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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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.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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