How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTimid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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 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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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