Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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I cannot live without books.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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