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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1743
Born: April 2
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
3Rd U.S. President
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I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.
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The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.
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While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.
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The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.
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The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen states in the course of eleven years, is but one for each state in a century and a half. No country should be so long without one. Nor will any degree of power in the hands of government prevent insurrections.
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A good neighbor is a very desireable thing.
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No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.
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We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .
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The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.
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What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
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If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.
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Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
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Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.
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Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits.
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I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.
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An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
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Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.
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The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.
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Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap it will be dear to you.
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