Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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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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