Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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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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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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