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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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My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war but of its abolition I despair.
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In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
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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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the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind
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Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends.
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Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
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The government you elect is the government you deserve.
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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
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The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.
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Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
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Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantage.
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Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.
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It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.
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It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.
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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
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In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.
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An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.
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