Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI 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
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal 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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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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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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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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