The dead should not rule the living.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhere the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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 think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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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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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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