Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
THOMAS JEFFERSONIt is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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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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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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