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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe dead should not rule the living.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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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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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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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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