Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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