We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
THOMAS JEFFERSONEnlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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
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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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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