Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
THOMAS JEFFERSONLeave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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 legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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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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