All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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 never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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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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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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