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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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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The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.
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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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Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand.
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I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
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Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that... we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverence, employ for the preservation of our liberties being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.
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In reviewing the history of the times through which we have passed, no portion of it gives greater satisfaction or reflection, than that which represents the efforts of the friends of religious freedom and the success with which they are crowned.
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And, in general, that branch which is to act ultimately and without appeal on any law is the rightful expositor of the validity of the law, uncontrolled by the opinions of the other coordinate authorities.
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If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.
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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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It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.
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I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.
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The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.
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Delay is preferable to error.
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Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day, assured that the public approbation will in the end be with us.
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Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it.
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