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Taste cannot be controlled by law.
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 last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.
Thomas Jefferson
I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.
Thomas Jefferson
In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.
Thomas Jefferson
The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More money is now paid for the education of a part than would be paid for that of the whole if systematically arranged.
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Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.
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Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.
Thomas Jefferson
The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
Thomas Jefferson
Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.
Thomas Jefferson
Every man has two countries: his own and France.
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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
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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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The government you elect is the government you deserve.
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A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean
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I have sworn upon the altar of god.
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Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.
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The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen states in the course of eleven years, is but one for each state in a century and a half. No country should be so long without one. Nor will any degree of power in the hands of government prevent insurrections.
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One man with courage is a majority.
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There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency.
Thomas Jefferson
It is an essential attribute of the jurisdiction of every country to preserve peace, to punish acts in breach of it, and to restore property taken by force within its limits.
Thomas Jefferson
What an augmentation of the field for jobbing, speculating, plundering, office-building and office-hunting would be produced by an assumption of all the state powers into the hands of the general government.
Thomas Jefferson
