No people can be both ignorant and free.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNo people can be both ignorant and free.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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I cannot live without books.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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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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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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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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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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