Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
THOMAS JEFFERSONAn enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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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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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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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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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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