No people can be both ignorant and free.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe only security of all is in a free press.
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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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 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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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