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 JEFFERSONWhere the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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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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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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I cannot live without books.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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