To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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