No people can be both ignorant and free.
THOMAS JEFFERSONOn matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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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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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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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