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The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.
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 qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.
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Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.
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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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An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.
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Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of inextinguishable hatred for one another.
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I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.
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