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Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

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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 is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to judge the law as well as the fact. They never exercise this power but when they suspect partiality in the judges and by the exercise of this power they have been the firmest bulwarks of English liberty.
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Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible of any other government than that of force, a conclusion not founded in truth nor experience.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
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Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.
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Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.
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Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
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It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.
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If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.
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What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.
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Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.
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The most effective way to find ourselves enslaved will not be done openly. If weakened we will sink gradually. I ask, who are the militia? They consist of the whole people, .... except a few public officers.
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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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Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.
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Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the United States, and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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Government governed least is government governed best.
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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
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