When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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.
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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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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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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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I cannot live without books.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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