Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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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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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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