Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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 for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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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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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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