He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTo compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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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 know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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