We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhere the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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