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I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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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. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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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

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It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. ↗

— 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

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world. ↗

— 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. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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