When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThose who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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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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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