Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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 dead should not rule the living.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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Experience 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.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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