Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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