Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
THOMAS JEFFERSONExperience 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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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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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 natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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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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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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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