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Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.
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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I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness.
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Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.
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Nothing can now be believed that is seen in a newspaper.
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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.
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Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us.
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Public offices were not made for private convenience.
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I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.
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The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.
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Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.
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If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective, will, in fact, be for life, and that will soon degenerate into an inheritance.
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Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
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A little revolution is a good thing.
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Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.
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Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
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The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.
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With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the former subordinate to the latter. But this is not the case. They are co-ordinate departments of one simple and integral whole.
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It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.
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If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.
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Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.
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Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand.
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