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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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