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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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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.
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It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
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A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism as to everything I see in a newspaper makes me indifferent whether I ever see one.
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The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.
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