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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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Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (adminstrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery.
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Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.
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Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
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Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.
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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
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I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages for though there is less wealth there, there is more freedom, more ease, and less misery.
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God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.
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Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state
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The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.
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[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.
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All authority belongs to the people.
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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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The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.
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If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.
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The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.
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Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
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[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness.
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One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
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