Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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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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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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I cannot live without books.
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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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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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