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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 have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
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Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility.
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Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.
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Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author
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No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa & America.
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I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians.
Thomas Jefferson
We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.
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music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.
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The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and is formed a Whig by nature.
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No man has done everything he can who has done only his best.
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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. . . in the full tide of successful experiment.
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Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
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Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
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The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.
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That the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction and that a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under colour of that instrument, is the rightful remedy.
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If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
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The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.
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It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one.
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