Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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The dead should not rule the living.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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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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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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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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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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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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