The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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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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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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