The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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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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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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