No people can be both ignorant and free.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNo people can be both ignorant and free.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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