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
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhat 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 was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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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