Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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 know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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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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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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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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