I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTo compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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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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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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