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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over 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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We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.
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To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.
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The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.
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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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no people can be both ignorant and free.
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We never repent of having eaten too little.
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To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with ther purest motives, is something incorrect....No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
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