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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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I cannot live without books.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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 spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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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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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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