Thomas Jefferson

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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom

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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg

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

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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers

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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry