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Thomas Jefferson

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"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."	Miscellaneous
"I know of 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 wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power."	Government
"The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to."	Politics
"History, in general, only informs us what bad government is."	Government
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all."	Government
"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."	War & Peace
"If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science."	Science
"It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance."	America
"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object."	Government
"No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends."	Presidency
"There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive."	Virtue
"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature."	Anti-Religion, Christianity
"It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately."	Morality
"Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle."	Debate
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."	Reading
"The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them."	America
"Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong."	Truth & Lies
"When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred."	Anger
"It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back."	America

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