Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever trouble another with what you can do yourself.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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