Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhen angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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The 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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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I cannot live without books.
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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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