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One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
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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Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God
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Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.
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Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.
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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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The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.
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In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended by their priests, and sometimes by a hen-pecked husband, they pour forth the effusions of their love to Jesus, in terms as amatory and carnal, as their modesty would permit them to use a mere earthly lover.
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Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.
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Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.
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Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.
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But of all the views of this law [universal education] none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.
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No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.
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The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.
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The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.
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Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again rally and recall the people they fix too for the people the principles of their political creed.
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It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
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Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.
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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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