To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTo compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal 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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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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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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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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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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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