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The dead should not rule the living
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 think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
Thomas Jefferson
We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no rightful link of connection between us and England but that of being under the same king.
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Men fight for freedom then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.
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If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.
Thomas Jefferson
Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
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Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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Those are governed best who are governed least.
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We never repent of having eaten too little.
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Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.
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The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen states in the course of eleven years, is but one for each state in a century and a half. No country should be so long without one. Nor will any degree of power in the hands of government prevent insurrections.
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I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.
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I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.
Thomas Jefferson
An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.
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