The dead should not rule the living.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDo you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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 greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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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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