If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
THOMAS JEFFERSONEvery day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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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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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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