I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the 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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