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

Thomas Jefferson · Government

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Thomas Jefferson

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

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Thomas Jefferson

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

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To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Education

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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

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