The only security of all is in a free press.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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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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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 error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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