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.
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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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I cannot live without books.
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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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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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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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