No people can be both ignorant and free.
THOMAS JEFFERSONOur civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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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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