We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
THOMAS JEFFERSONAn enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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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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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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