Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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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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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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