He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNo people can be both ignorant and free.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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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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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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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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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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I cannot live without books.
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