It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
THOMAS JEFFERSONGood wine is a necessity of life for me.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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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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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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