Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
THOMAS JEFFERSONAll 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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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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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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