It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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