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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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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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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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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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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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