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There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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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The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.
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When we consider how much climate contributes to the happiness of our condition, by the fine sensation it excites, and the productions it is the parent of, we have reason to value highly the accident of birth in such a one as that of Virginia.
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My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on the purest of all moral systems, for the purpose of deriving from it pence and power, revolts those who think for themselves, and who read in that system only what is really there.
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A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.
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Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country and by taking in those who are not so, the able part of the body have their hands tied by the unable.
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It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one.
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the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
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A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]
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