Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDo not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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