It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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 like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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