The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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 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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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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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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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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