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Power is not alluring to pure minds.
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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Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.
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Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
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The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
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Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.
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Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.
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From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.
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What we learn to do, we learn by doing.
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I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.
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I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.
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All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free as himself and acquiesce when his opinion is freely overruled, will attain his object in the end.
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Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?
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It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.
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To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.
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Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers.
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That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied.
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