The only security of all is in a free press.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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 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 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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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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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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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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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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I cannot live without books.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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