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No people can be both ignorant and free.
Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson No people can be both ignorant and free.
Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson I cannot live without books.
Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson
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