When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTake things always by their smooth handle.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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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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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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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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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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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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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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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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