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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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