Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhere the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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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 cannot live without books.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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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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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
THOMAS JEFFERSON