I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI cannot live without books.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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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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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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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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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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