The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNo people can be both ignorant and free.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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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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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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