Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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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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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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