Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
THOMAS JEFFERSONPeace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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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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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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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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