The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNo people can be both ignorant and free.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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 issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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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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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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