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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.
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The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.
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I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.
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The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.
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If the book be false in its facts, disprove them if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.
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Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.
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Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.
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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
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War is not the best engine for us to resort to nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly managed, will be a better instrument for obliging the interested nations of Europe to treat us with justice.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
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The construction applied . . . to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power . . . ought not to be construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument.
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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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One man with courage is a majority.
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I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.
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