I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhere the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and 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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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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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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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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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