I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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 prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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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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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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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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