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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.

Thomas Jefferson

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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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