Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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We never repent of having eat too little.
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I cannot live without books.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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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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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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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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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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