To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhen injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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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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I cannot live without books.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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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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