The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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