The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe only security of all is in a free press.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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