When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHe who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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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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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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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 cannot live without books.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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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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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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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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