Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
THOMAS JEFFERSONEnlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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 prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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I cannot live without books.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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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 have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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