Free Discussion Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

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• Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth. — Thomas Huxley
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• Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes… — Thomas Jefferson
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• Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion. — Gerrit Smith

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