Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhen injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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 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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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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