We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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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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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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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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