Tag: Thomas Jefferson
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How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
Thomas Jefferson
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To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
Thomas Jefferson
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So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
Thomas Jefferson
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Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
Thomas Jefferson
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Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
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There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.
Thomas Jefferson
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No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
Thomas Jefferson
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson
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Delay is preferable to error.
Thomas Jefferson
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I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.
Thomas Jefferson