As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers.
Interpretation
Jefferson suggests that falsehoods are prevalent in print media, especially newspapers.
In this quote, Thomas Jefferson highlights the idea that the media, particularly newspapers, is often filled with untruths and misinformation. This reflects his belief in the importance of critical thinking and discerning truth from falsehood in the information we consume, emphasizing that one should be wary of accepting everything presented as fact in public discourse.
In practice
During a lecture on media literacy, one could include this quote to emphasize the necessity of questioning sources.
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
βWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
The battle against the Devil, which is the principal task of Saint Michael the Archangel, is still being fought today, because the Devil is still alive and active in the world.
The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.
The arms are fair, When the intent of bearing them is just.
Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes thatβs overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. Weβve all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect.
This is the first thing I have understood:_x000D_ Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.
LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us.
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