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The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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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Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom she is rarely known and seldom welcome. She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men.
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Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.
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An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
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The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or otherwise to publish anything but false facts affecting injuriously the life, liberty or reputation of others, or affecting the peace of the [United States] with foreign nations.
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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
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Circumstances sometimes require, that rights the most unquestionable should be advanced with delicacy.
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Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantage.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.
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The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
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