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...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

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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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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.
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Turning, then, from this loathsome combination of church and state, and weeping over the follies of our fellow men, who yield themselves the willing dupes and drudges of these mountebanks, I consider reformation and redress as desperate, and abandon them to the Quixotism of more enthusiastic minds.
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Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
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If science produces no better fruits than tyranny... I would rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest and estimable as our neighbouring savages are.
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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
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One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment ... inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
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A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.
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Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.
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Our people shall be free
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No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.
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The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.
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War is not the best engine for us to resort to nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly managed, will be a better instrument for obliging the interested nations of Europe to treat us with justice.
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Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .
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I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man.
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A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
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During the late war I had an infallible rule for deciding what Great Britain would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they ought to do, and to take the reverse of that as what they would assuredly do, and I can say with truth that I was never deceived.
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I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.
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History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.
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life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health.
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