It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
THOMAS JEFFERSONSome men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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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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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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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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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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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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