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.
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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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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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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