Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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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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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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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 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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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