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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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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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I cannot live without books.
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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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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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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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