No people can be both ignorant and free.
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
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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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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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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 cannot live without books.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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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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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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