It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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