I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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 was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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