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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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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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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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