I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever spend your money before you have it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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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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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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