Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
THOMAS JEFFERSONEnlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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I cannot live without books.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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