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.
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 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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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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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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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