I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
THOMAS JEFFERSONOur liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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