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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

Thomas Jefferson

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Depend Freedom Healing Liberty Lost
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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Believe Government History Ignorance People Religious
The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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Equality Government Happiness Individual Man Right
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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Complain Determine Inspirational Lose Occasion Time
When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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Duty Injustice Justice Law One Liner Resistance
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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Declare Experience Government Man Poor Rich
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Himself Honesty Human Nature Lying
Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Alcohol Funny Necessity Requirement Wine
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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Challenge Corporation Country Government Law Strength
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Believe Greatness Inspirational Luck Success Work Hard
It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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Citizen Government Illegal Politics
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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Death Liberty Machine Man Struggle
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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