How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
THOMAS JEFFERSONDifference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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