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“No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his daughter, for consuming his substance in taverns ... in all these he has liberty; but if he does not frequent the church, or then conform in ceremonies, there is an immediate uproar.”

Ifs Men Doe Church Liberty Land Daughter Management Errors Affair Ill Positive Atheism Neighbor Complaining Substance Conform Ceremony Consuming Marrying Sowing Taverns

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“My aversion to them...springs from the perniciousness of that sect to society-I hate Papists, as a man, not as a Protestant. If Papists were only enemies to the religion of other men, I should overlook their errors. As they are foes to liberty, I cannot forgive them.”

Ifs Men Should Hate Liberty Enemy Spring I Hate Forgiving Errors Foe Protestants Sects Aversion

Author:Horace Walpole

“It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.”

Truth Certain Liberty Violence Strange Source Errors

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.”

Men Should May Country Found Liberty Steps He Man Abuse Wine Errors Deny Drunk Unjust Unwise Supposition

Book:Memoirs of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell: And of His Sons, Richard and Henry

Source: Memoirs of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell: And of His Sons, Richard and Henry

“Delay is preferable to error.”

Mistake Liberty Errors Investing Presidential Delay

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private