Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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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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