Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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 like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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