We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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