The dead should not rule the living.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhenever 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I cannot live without books.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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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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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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