The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNo people can be both ignorant and free.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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 was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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