Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [281-300] of 584 President quotesPresident QuotesPresident Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.~ Thomas Jefferson I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.~ Thomas Jefferson I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.~ Thomas Jefferson It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.~ Thomas Jefferson Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.~ Thomas Jefferson The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter.~ Thomas Jefferson The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.~ Thomas Jefferson The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded, are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us ...~ Thomas Jefferson Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.~ Thomas Jefferson When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.~ Thomas Jefferson Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government; whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied upon to set them to rights.~ Thomas Jefferson Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.~ Thomas Jefferson Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.~ Andrew Johnson Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.~ Lyndon B. Johnson You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harm it would cause if improperly administered.~ Lyndon B. Johnson Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.~ Lyndon B. Johnson Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.~ Lyndon B. Johnson Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one’s own interest, knowledge and conscience is the most important freedom the scholar has, and part of that process is to state its results.~ Donald Kennedy If we cannot end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.~ John F. Kennedy Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.~ John F. Kennedy Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print