To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical.
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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.Thomas Jefferson
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.
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Politics, like religion, hold up torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error
Thomas Jefferson
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.
Thomas Jefferson
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Thomas Jefferson
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