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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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 boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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