Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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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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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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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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