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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 day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.
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No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.
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The mass of our citizens may be divided into two classes -- the laboring and the learned. The laboring will need the first grade of education to qualify them for their pursuits and duties the learned will need it as a foundation for further acquirements.
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An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.
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My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.
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The precepts of philosophy and of the Hebrew code, laid hold of actions only. (Jesus) pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man, erected his tribunal in the regions of his thoughts, and purified the waters at the fountain head.
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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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The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.
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Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.
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I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.
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In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.
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Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
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No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.
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I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half of the world fools and the other half Hypocrites
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It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
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Our liberty depends on freedom of the press.
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Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.
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There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.
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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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There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of any parish in America.
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