Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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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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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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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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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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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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