No people can be both ignorant and free.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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