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Truth Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the…
- The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to…
- Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.
- The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More…
- No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may…
- No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may…
- Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the…
- Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their…
- This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may…
- Truth and reason are eternal. They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail; however, in times and places they may be overborne for a while…
- Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom…
- I hold it certain that to open the doors of truth and to fortify the habit of testing everything by reason are the most effectual…
- If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the…
- I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the…
- Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our…
- Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.
- Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural…
- Truth between candid minds can never do harm.
- To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer,…
- It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we have pursued for…
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