Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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I 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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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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 have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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