Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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I cannot live without books.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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