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Best Over Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.
- I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest…
- I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion,…
- An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment…
- That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition,…
- I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than…
- What has been the effect of coericion [sic]? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and errors…
- The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the…
- Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should…
- If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then…
- I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
- Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
- The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
- A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their…
- An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
- I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
- I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
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