It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDifference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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I cannot live without books.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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