Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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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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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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