No people can be both ignorant and free.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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 for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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.
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