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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIf you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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