Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
THOMAS JEFFERSONLeave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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