I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWhen angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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