Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I cannot live without books.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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