Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art

Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel...

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel...

If government have a right of demanding ad libitum and of taxing us themselves to...

If government have a right of demanding ad libitum and of taxing us themselves to...

Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited...

Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited...

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful...

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful...

One insult pocketed soon produces another

One insult pocketed soon produces another

The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding,...

The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding,...

I have great hope that some patriotic spirit will, at a favorable moment, call (up...

I have great hope that some patriotic spirit will, at a favorable moment, call (up...

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain...

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain...

A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.

A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.

The animosities of soverigns are temporary, and may be allayed; but those which seize the...

The animosities of soverigns are temporary, and may be allayed; but those which seize the...

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes...

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes...

Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is...

Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is...

Religions are all alike -- founded upon fables and mythologies

Religions are all alike -- founded upon fables and mythologies

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

To do excellence with consistency in work, the heart needs no clearance from the mind...

To do excellence with consistency in work, the heart needs no clearance from the mind...