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The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.
Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1743
Born: April 2
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
3Rd U.S. President
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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.
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Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.
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One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
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Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.
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Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.
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No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.
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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
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To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting.
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By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated.
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What we learn to do, we learn by doing.
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The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.
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The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
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What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.... [Instead] reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free enquiry must be indulged and how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse it ourselves?
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The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
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