On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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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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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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