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If the book be false in its facts, disprove them if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.
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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But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed.
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I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
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Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.
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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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When we consider how much climate contributes to the happiness of our condition, by the fine sensation it excites, and the productions it is the parent of, we have reason to value highly the accident of birth in such a one as that of Virginia.
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If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.
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Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.
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Bigotry is the disease of ignorance.
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