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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

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.

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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

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 blind-folded fear.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer...

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

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