Poet Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

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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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The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
One man with courage is a majority.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.
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.
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
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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