An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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 am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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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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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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