I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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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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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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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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