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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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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 prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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 man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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.
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Believe Ignorance Prefer Truth
We never repent of having eat too little.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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I cannot live without books.
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