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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
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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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
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It is Mortifying to suppose it possible that a people able and zealous to contend with the Enemy should be reduced to fold their Arms for want of the means of defence yet no resources that we know of, ensure us against this event.
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Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.
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In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.
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Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.
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One had rather have no opinion than a false one.
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The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man.
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Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.
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Government governed least is government governed best.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
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Those are governed best who are governed least.
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Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.
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An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings...than a lazy lounger...too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable existence by eating on that surplus of other men's labor.
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Nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye witness.
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Dependence leads to subservience.
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We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest.
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I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.
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If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
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It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by forcible asportation and education of the infant against the will of the father.
Thomas Jefferson
While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.
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