If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHow little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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