To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThink as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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