I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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I cannot live without books.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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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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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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