Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHe who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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