Thomas Jefferson

(93 votes)   I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

Thomas Jefferson

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(93 votes)   I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(93 votes)   This is the fourth?

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(93 votes)   Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(91 votes)   Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(89 votes)   We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(89 votes)   We rarely repent of having eaten too little.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(85 votes)   I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(82 votes)   To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Thomas Jefferson

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(78 votes)   Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(78 votes)   No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(78 votes)   Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances

Thomas Jefferson

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(78 votes)   The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(76 votes)   Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(75 votes)   Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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