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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Thomas Jefferson

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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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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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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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 legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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