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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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