Thomas Jefferson

(43 votes)   Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Thomas Jefferson

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(43 votes)   The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(43 votes)   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.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(43 votes)   While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(42 votes)   I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(42 votes)   The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(42 votes)   We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(42 votes)   When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(42 votes)   Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(41 votes)   The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(41 votes)   Were we to be directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

Thomas Jefferson

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(40 votes)   Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(40 votes)   Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny

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1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(40 votes)   I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(40 votes)   Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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