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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

Thomas Jefferson

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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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 principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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 doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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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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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