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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.

Thomas Jefferson

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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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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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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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