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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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 you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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I cannot live without books.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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