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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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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 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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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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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