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Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace
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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I believe from what I have lately seen that we should be substantially safe were our Citizens Armed, but we have not as many Arms as we have Enemies in the State.
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On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.
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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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Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today.
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If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
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Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.
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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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What we learn to do, we learn by doing.
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Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.
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I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.
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A good neighbor is a very desireable thing.
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The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.
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Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in the moon or planets. They had heard only that there were such, and knew that they must be wrong.
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Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
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I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.
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It is always better to have no ideas than false ones to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
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I believe we may lessen the danger of buying and selling votes, by making the number of voters too great for any means of purchase. I may further say that I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.
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