The dead should not rule the living.
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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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