Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNo people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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