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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhen governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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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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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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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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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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