He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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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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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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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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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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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 never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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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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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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