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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The dead should not rule the living.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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