He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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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.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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