We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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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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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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