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.
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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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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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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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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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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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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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