Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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 in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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 think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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