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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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I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.
Thomas Jefferson
A good neighbor is a very desireable thing.
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The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.
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The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and this] would apply in an occasion of peace as well as war.
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Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.
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A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
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Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.
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Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
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Music...This is the favorite passion of my soul.
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The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.
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Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
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When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
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The mass of the citizens is the safest depositary of their own rights.
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History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.
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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
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Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.
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Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.
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I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.
Thomas Jefferson
The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.
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