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The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.
Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1743
Born: April 2
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
3Rd U.S. President
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One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.
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Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw formed by a contour of mountains into a basin... finely interspersed with islands, its water limpid as crystal, and the mountain sides covered with rich groves... down to the water-edge: here and there precipices of rock to checker the scene and save it from monotony.
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We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.
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If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.
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What an augmentation of the field for jobbing, speculating, plundering, office-building and office-hunting would be produced by an assumption of all the state powers into the hands of the general government.
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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
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If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely hold us in check.
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never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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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.
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If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon for what one so cheap to those of whose system of politics morality makes no part?
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What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
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Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.
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Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.
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Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.
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Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity. But is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature.
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