I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDifference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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 greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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