Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the 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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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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