I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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 think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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