To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
THOMAS JEFFERSONExperience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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