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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 man who loves his country on its own account, and not merely for its trappings of interest or power, can never be divorced for it, can never refuse to come forward when he finds that she is engaged in dangers which he has the means of warding off.
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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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The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
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The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty.
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It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.
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A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
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Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
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Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.
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The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.
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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
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Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no rightful link of connection between us and England but that of being under the same king.
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The soil is the gift of God to the living.
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The happiest hours of my life have been spent in the flow of affection among friends.
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History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.
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Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.
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There are two amendments only which I am anxious for: 1. A bill of rights, which it is so much the interest of all to have that I conceive it must be yielded...2. The restoring of the principle of necessary rotation, particularly to the Senate and Presidency, but most of all to the last.
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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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