The dead should not rule the living.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNo people can be both ignorant and free.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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