To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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I 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.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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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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