All 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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONA great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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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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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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