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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

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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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It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.
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Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.
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Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only... If [free enquiry] be restrained now, the present corruptions will be protected, and new ones encouraged.
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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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If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
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It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil I believe it to be one of those cases where mercantile clamor will bear down reason, until it is corrected by ruin.
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That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
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I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
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I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity as absolute and palpable as if Congress had ordered us to fall down and worship a golden image.
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The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.
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The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require that force should be interposed to a certain degree.
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Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
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Our liberty depends on freedom of the press.
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When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.
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The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.
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I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
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I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing.
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Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Wheather it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted with a brush, or sewn with a needle, it is a way of reaching for immortality.
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It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one.
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