I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI cannot live without books.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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