Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
THOMAS JEFFERSONAn enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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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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 was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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We never repent of having eat too little.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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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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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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