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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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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He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
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[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
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Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane system.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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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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We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.
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I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.
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Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.
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never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased
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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
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Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.
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It is better to have no ideas than false ones.
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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