If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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 like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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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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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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