Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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