The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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I cannot live without books.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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