I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHe who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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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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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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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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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