We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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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 prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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