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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONPride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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