I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
THOMAS JEFFERSONLet 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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