When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI 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
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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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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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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