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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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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I cannot live without books.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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 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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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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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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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