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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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Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands.
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It has been thought that the people are not competent electors of judges learned in the law. But I do not know this to be true, and, if doubtful, we should follow principle.
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Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that... we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverence, employ for the preservation of our liberties being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.
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Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.
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Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
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The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.
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Earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers, diligently to attend divine services.
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We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.
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I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points of liberty and despotism, something will be gained for the former. As men become better informed, their rulers must respect them the more.
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Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.
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Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.
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Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight.
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The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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And, in general, that branch which is to act ultimately and without appeal on any law is the rightful expositor of the validity of the law, uncontrolled by the opinions of the other coordinate authorities.
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I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
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A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.
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One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
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The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.
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