Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
THOMAS JEFFERSONThink as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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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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