All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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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 am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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