No people can be both ignorant and free.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDo not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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