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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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 believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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The 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.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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