We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
THOMAS JEFFERSONTake things always by their smooth handle.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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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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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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 was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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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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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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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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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 boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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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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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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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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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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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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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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