History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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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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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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