I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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