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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
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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Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.
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A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in person, which would be impracticable beyond the limits of a city or small township, but by representatives chosen by himself and responsible to him at short periods.
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Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men: it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume and knowing it, to defeat its views.
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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
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Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible of any other government than that of force, a conclusion not founded in truth nor experience.
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Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature.
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The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government
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The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.
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Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
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Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.
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I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude
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Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author
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The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
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The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.
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That the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction and that a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under colour of that instrument, is the rightful remedy.
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If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely hold us in check.
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