In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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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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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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I cannot live without books.
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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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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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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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 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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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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