It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThink as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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 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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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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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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I cannot live without books.
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