I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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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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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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