Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.Thomas Jefferson
Those who bear equally the burdens of government should equally participate in the benefits.
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Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to, convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.
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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 have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
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I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.
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