To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI cannot live without books.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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 think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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