Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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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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.
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I cannot live without books.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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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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