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When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Government
Liberty
People
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The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Men
Civil Rights
Law
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If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Democracy
Majority
Minorities
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Education
Inspiring
Body
Dawn
Evil
Mind
Patriotic
Tyranny
Tyrants
Mind Day Body
Enlighten
Generally
Spirits
Vanish
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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.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Intelligence
Religion
Truth
Believe
Ignorance
Mistake
Believes
Less
Wrong
Error
Preferable
Remote
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The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Morning
Cutting
Shoulders
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Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Religion
Atheism
Christianity
Morris
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Bible
Father
Husband
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Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Politics
Political
Silence
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He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Office
People
Substance
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I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Important
Philosophy
Political
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Design
Government
Ambition
Begets
Dependence
Fit
Tools
Virtue
Designs
Germ
Prepares
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It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the progress of decay.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Men
Mind
Progress
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We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Father
Ignorance
Religious
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If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
War
Common Sense
Drug
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We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Citizens
Males
Military
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The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Hands
Patriotic
Twists
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No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Unnecessary
Use
Writing
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Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Happiness
Teacher
Teaching
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I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Beer
Citizens
Wish
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I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Politics
Giving
Honesty
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I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Abuse
Office
Political
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The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require that force should be interposed to a certain degree.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Country
Degrees
Honor
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I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us... I wish that of Mr. would follow them.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Forever
Honor
Political
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The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Law
Mind
Religious
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the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.
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Men
Boys
Educational
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Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Common
People
Principles
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Political
Presidential
Storm
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Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Trust
Alone
Government
People
Rulers
Safe
Safety
Trusted
Alone Government People
Themselves
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Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Freedom Of The Press
Newspapers
President
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The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
4th Of July
Godly
Heart
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Inspirational Quotes on: Honesty, Simplicity, Secret, Universe, Modesty, Peace Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Book
Honesty
Simplicity
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If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Peace
War
Conquest
Rooted
Should Have
Deeply
Every American
Principle
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Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Community
Eye
Spirit
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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.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Men
Individual
Rights
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Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Men
One Day
Years
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The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Jesus
Doctrine
Fancy
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Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Country
Ignorance
Law
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My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Death
Dream
Despair
Doom And Gloom
Gloom
Hopeful
Theory
Cheap
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None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Army
Gun
Important
Standing
Armed
Nation
Disciplined
Dispense
None
Ours
Therefore
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The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Government
Citizens
May
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A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Determination
Prudence
World
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The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Government
Foundation
Southern
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Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Character
Errors
Weakness
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Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Government
Degrees
Public Opinion
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One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Politics
Gratitude
Judging
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I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Christian
Doctrine
Preference
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Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Government
Citizens
Taxation
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The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Government
Cures
Monarchy
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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd US President
Power
Exercise
Humility
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