I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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