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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
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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No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.
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Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.
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Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.
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The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.
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On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.
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The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education.
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The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.
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A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in happiness. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.
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An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.
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We never repent of having eaten too little.
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Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
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Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
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Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.
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The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.
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The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
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