I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHistory, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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