The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDetermine 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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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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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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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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I cannot live without books.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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