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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.

Thomas Jefferson

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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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