Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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 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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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We never repent of having eat too little.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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