I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.
Thomas Jefferson in letter to Elbridge Gerry (1799)
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
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No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
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If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Thomas Jefferson in letter to James Lewis, Jr (9 May 1798)
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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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.
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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
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The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
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