#so

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#association #confederacy #down #existed #greatest

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#consolidation #corruption #country #course #destruction

I'm not a very dark person. ↗

— Norah Jones

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As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#escape #even #forms #guilty #law

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#errors #free #left #may #opinion

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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