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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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Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
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When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
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Our bills shall not be killed.
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As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution. It may indeed injure them in fame or in fortune but it saves the republic, which is the first and supreme law.
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Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.
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I hold it certain that to open the doors of truth and to fortify the habit of testing everything by reason are the most effectual manacles we can rivet on the hands of our successors to prevent their manacling the people with their own consent.
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Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.
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All the world would be Christian if they were taught the pure Gospel of Christ!.
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If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
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A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.
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Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom she is rarely known and seldom welcome. She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men.
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It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent.
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The government you elect is the government you deserve.
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
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