An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThere is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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 whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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