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Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue.

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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darke...more

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I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

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I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; be...more

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Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

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I never did or countenanced in public life a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith having never believed there was one code of mor...more

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We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

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The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.

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

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Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the U...more

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Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

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They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of th...more

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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.