When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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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’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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