Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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 issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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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 never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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