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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHe who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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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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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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