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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Ambition Men Pain Truth
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Dispute Forgiveness Inspirational Let Go One Liner Please
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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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