He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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I cannot live without books.
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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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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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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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