When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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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 had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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