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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson

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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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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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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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I cannot live without books.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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