On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThink as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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.
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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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