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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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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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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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