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

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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.

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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of Constitutional power.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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