When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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I cannot live without books.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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