It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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I cannot live without books.
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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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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 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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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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