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 JEFFERSONIt is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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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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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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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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