I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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 prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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