"The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
~ Thomas Jefferson ~
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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
More Thomas Jefferson quotes
"A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the li...
"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of c...
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
"I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on...
". . . The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised w...
"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise th...
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.
"The poor who have neither property, friends, nor strength to labor are boarded in the houses of good farmers, to whom a stipulated sum is annually pai...
"If you serve humanity, you serve humanity's God.
"He [Weishaupt] says, no one ever laid a surer foundation for liberty than our grand master, Jesus of Nazareth.
"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 ...
"Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violat...