On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe only security of all is in a free press.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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