He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
THOMAS JEFFERSONPeace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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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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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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