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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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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 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 greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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 hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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