A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIf a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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