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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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Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
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Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . . . worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens.
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the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind
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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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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.
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A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.
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I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.
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The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the ways of evil, evil wins.
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Action will delineate and define you.
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It is Mortifying to suppose it possible that a people able and zealous to contend with the Enemy should be reduced to fold their Arms for want of the means of defence yet no resources that we know of, ensure us against this event.
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