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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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The colleges of Edinburgh and Geneva as seminaries of science, are considered as the two eyes of Europe. While Great Britain and America give the preference to the former, all other countries give it to the latter.
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no people can be both ignorant and free.
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Taste cannot be controlled by law.
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Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
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I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half of the world fools and the other half Hypocrites
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Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.
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Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.
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A good neighbor is a very desireable thing.
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Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.
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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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It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.
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The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.
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Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word.
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To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
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In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.
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The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.
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[If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man not likely to be much read if let alone, but if persecuted, it will be generally read. Every man in the United States will think it a duty to buy a copy, in vindication of his right to buy and to read what he pleases.
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It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil I believe it to be one of those cases where mercantile clamor will bear down reason, until it is corrected by ruin.
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A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.
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