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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNo people can be both ignorant and free.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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I cannot live without books.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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