Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIf you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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 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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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