He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe only security of all is in a free press.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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