Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Civil Liberties
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.
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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.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty.
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