It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNo people can be both ignorant and free.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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