American - President | April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Thomas Jefferson
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
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I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
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It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
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No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
GovernmentFreeWillWithoutWhere
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
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Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
ManNothingRightsInherent
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
FriendGovernmentI AmAlwaysOwn
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
PainNeverCostUsHappenedMuch
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
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We never repent of having eaten too little.
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