Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
THOMAS JEFFERSONExperience 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
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