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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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From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.
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A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.
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The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man
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It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods.
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Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.
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If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
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Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight.
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I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.
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The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
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We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body
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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
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Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.
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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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An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.
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With all the defects in our Constitution, whether general or particular, the comparison of our government with those of Europe, is like a comparison of Heaven with Hell. England, like the earth, may be allowed to take the intermediate station.
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The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
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I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.
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Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.
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The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
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Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.
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