If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThe dead should not rule the living.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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 most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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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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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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