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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhere the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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