Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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