We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTimid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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 never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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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 natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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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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We never repent of having eat too little.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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