Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect 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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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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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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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 was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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 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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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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