No people can be both ignorant and free.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
No people can be both ignorant and free.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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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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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
THOMAS JEFFERSON