I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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I cannot live without books.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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