We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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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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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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