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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 sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.
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God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting honestly towards all, benevolently to those who fall within our way, respecting sacredly their rights, bodily and mental, and cherishing especially their freedom of conscience, as we value our own.
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Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.
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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.
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Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
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...let us save what remains not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
Thomas Jefferson
But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.
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And, in general, that branch which is to act ultimately and without appeal on any law is the rightful expositor of the validity of the law, uncontrolled by the opinions of the other coordinate authorities.
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My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.
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A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
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I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.
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Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.
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The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
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It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.
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A little revolution is a good thing.
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Let those flatter who fear it is not an American art .
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The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.
Thomas Jefferson
I do verily believe that if the principle were to prevail of a common law being in force in the United States (which principle possesses the general government at once of all the powers of the state governments, and reduces us to a single consolidated government), it would become the most corrupt government on the earth.
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