All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDifference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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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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I cannot live without books.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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