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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ↗

— 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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other. ↗

— 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

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The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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