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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More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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