I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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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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