Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.

I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness.

Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.

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