Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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