The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHow much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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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 will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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