On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTo compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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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’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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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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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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