He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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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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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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