If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe only security of all is in a free press.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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