Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
THOMAS JEFFERSONOur liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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 think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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