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 JEFFERSONIgnorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I cannot live without books.
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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 put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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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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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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