An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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