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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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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If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice of place as well as mode, and we may safely call on the whole body of English jurists to produce the map on which nature has traced for each individual the geographical line which she forbids him to cross in pursuit of happiness.
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We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.
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My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on the purest of all moral systems, for the purpose of deriving from it pence and power, revolts those who think for themselves, and who read in that system only what is really there.
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If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter
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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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A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.
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We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists
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Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
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Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
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