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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object



Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State



Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights



It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.



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



But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.



I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.



Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.



Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.



The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do



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



Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.



The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.



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



The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time








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