Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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