Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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 in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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