An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNo people can be both ignorant and free.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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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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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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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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