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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONA great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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