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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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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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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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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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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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