The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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The 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.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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