The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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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 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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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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