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Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... they are the natural enemies of error, and of error only... if [free enquiry] be restrained now, the present corruptions will be protected, and new ones encouraged.

-Thomas Jefferson

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Reason And Free Inquiry Are The Only

Thomas Jefferson

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... they are the natural enemies of error, and of error only... if [free enquiry] be restrained now, the present corruptions will be protected, and new ones encouraged.

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