Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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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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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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