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One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
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We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.
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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
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If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.
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From the dissensions among Sects themselves arise necessarily a right of choosing and necessity of deliberating to which we will conform. But if we choose for ourselves, we must allow others to choose also, and so reciprocally, this establishes religious liberty.
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Hemp is one of the greatest, most important substances of our nation
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Everything yields to diligence.
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[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of theirvirtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!
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No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.
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Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?
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Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom she is rarely known and seldom welcome. She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men.
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Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.
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The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
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The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights
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It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherence of our own nightly dreams.
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Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
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To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
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Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.
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I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude
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