I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI cannot live without books.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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