The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThink as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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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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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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