We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe never repent of having eat too little.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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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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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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It 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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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