Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThink as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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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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