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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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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. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others. ↗

— 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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It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle. ↗