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Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.
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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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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Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.
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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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It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.
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... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.
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Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom she is rarely known and seldom welcome. She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men.
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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.
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Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.
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When the heart is right, the feet are swift.
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In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.
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Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantage.
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The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.
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The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the ways of evil, evil wins.
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A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.
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When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.
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The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.
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Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision
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To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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