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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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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One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.
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It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.
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A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
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I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.
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Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself.
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If the present 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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[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness.
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In a virtuous and free state, no rewards can be so pleasing to sensible minds, as those which include the approbation of our fellow citizens. My great pain is, lest my poor endeavours should fall short of the kind expectations of my country.
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The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.
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Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.
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When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.
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Never spend your money before you have earned it.
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That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
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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 law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.
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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
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It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil I believe it to be one of those cases where mercantile clamor will bear down reason, until it is corrected by ruin.
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The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.
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It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.
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It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.
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