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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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, 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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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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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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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