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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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 whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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