Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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I cannot live without books.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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