We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThose who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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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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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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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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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 boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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