How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
THOMAS JEFFERSONLeave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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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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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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