I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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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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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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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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