We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHow much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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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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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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