When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI 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.
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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.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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 issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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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 buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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