Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large...
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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas JeffersonI 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 JeffersonIn every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
Thomas JeffersonEverything yields to diligence
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No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.
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The pretense that the workings of the mind, like the actions of the body, are subject to the control of laws, does not seem sufficiently demolished. ... The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.
Thomas JeffersonI would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.
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The inquisition of public opinion overwhelms in practice the freedom asserted by the laws in theory.
Thomas JeffersonTo compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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