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I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
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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Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature. Individuals exercise it by their single will collections of men by that of their majority for the law of the majority is the natural law of every society of men.
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They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes.
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In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.
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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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Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.
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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not better.
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The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.
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The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights
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The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.
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Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.
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Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.
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this interesting subject, which, if the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated, as we fondly hope and believe, is to be the chief instrument in effecting it.
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Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
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We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
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If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate.
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I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.
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The provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves they answer the substantial purposes of government and of justice, and other purposes than these should not be answered.
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The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.
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No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
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But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. Is this a proof of the infallibility of establishments?
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