Thomas Jefferson
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
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The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.