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The dead should not rule the living.

Thomas Jefferson

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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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 man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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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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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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