Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThere is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The dead should not rule the living.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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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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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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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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