Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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I 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.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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