History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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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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