I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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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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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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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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I cannot live without books.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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