Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
THOMAS JEFFERSONAll should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I 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.
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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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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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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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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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