Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhen angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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I cannot live without books.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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