If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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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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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 was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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