Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhere the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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I cannot live without books.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have 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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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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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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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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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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