Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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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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