It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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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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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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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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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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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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I cannot live without books.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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