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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 is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to judge the law as well as the fact. They never exercise this power but when they suspect partiality in the judges and by the exercise of this power they have been the firmest bulwarks of English liberty.
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It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.
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Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .
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We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
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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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Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.
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We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
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The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.
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Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature.
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Everything yields to diligence.
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For St. Paul only says that it is better to be married than to burn. Now I presume that if that apostle had known that providence would at an after day be so kind to any particular set of people as to furnish them with other means of extinguishing their fire than those of matrimony, he would have earnestly recmmended them to their practice.
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