"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.












No people who are ignorant can be truly free.
More Thomas Jefferson quotes
"Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
"Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
"No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.
"no people can be both ignorant and free.
"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
"Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both. We ...
"May it [American independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of ...
"May it [American independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of ...
"...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the ...
"If a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will be. The functionaries of every governmen...