Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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I cannot live without books.
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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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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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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