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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

Thomas Jefferson

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Bank Believe DAngry Institution Liberty Stand
When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Duty Injustice Justice Law One Liner Resistance
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.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Declare Experience Government Man Poor Rich
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

DAngry Escape Guilty Justice Law Punishment
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Constitution Government Men Politics Scare Touch
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.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Business Democracy Instruction Liberty Mind People
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

Believe Government History Ignorance People Religious
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Country Government Majority Participate Politics
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Alone Freedom Government Need Support Truth
We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Civil Enjoyment Religion Right
When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Angry Count One Liner Patience Speak
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Believe Enemy One Liner
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.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Destructive Ending Government People Politics Right
I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Believe Greatness Inspirational Luck Success Work Hard
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Advantage Circumstances Cool Peace Person
Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Depend Geometry Opinion Religious Rights Science

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