Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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