The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Tag: Thomas Jefferson
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
The tree of Liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.
There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people.
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.