Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI 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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I cannot live without books.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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