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The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
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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I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again rally and recall the people they fix too for the people the principles of their political creed.
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Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author
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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
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A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.
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I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.
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Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.
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I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.
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The expedition of Messrs. Lewis & Clarke for exploring the river Missouri, & the best communication from that to the Pacific ocean, has had all the success which could have been expected.
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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 boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.
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I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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