The only security of all is in a free press.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhen governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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