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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.

Thomas Jefferson

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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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