Delay is preferable to error.
Tag: Thomas Jefferson
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When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
I cannot live without books.
I live for books.
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But 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.
I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.