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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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It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most.
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What we learn to do, we learn by doing.
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[My] pillar of support through life.... I can say conscientiously that I do not know in the world a man of purer integrity, more dispassionate, disinterested, and devoted to genuine Republicanism nor could I in the whole scope of America and Europe point out an abler head.
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Having always observed that public works are much less advantageously managed than the same are by private hands, I have thought it better for the public to go to market for whatever it wants which is to be found there for there competition brings it down to the minimum value.
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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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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
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The federal government is our servant, not our master.
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Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
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Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
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Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
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But of all the views of this law [universal education] none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.
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The price of barbecue is eternal vigilance.
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The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.
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A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]
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The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.
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Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should consider a conquest over the conscience of men either attainable or applicable to any desirable purpose.
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