"The freedom of the press is on of……" — Thomas Jefferson
"The freedom of the press is on of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by a despotic government."
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1,437 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson has 1,437 quotes on this site.
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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your…
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able…
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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted…
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral…
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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better…
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature,…
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been…
— Woodrow Wilson
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It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against legislative encroachments,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he…
— Margaret Thatcher
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The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.
— C L R James
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Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.
— Andres Serrano
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The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by…
— George Mason
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Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns…
— Kim Stanley
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The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the…
— James Madison
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Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores…
— Corey Ford
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
— Tacitus
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