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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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The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.
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The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.
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Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.
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Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
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Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
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I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the making of bread, butter, cheese, soap, to the incubation of eggs, &c.
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The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
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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.
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Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses.
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If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
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The expedition of Messrs. Lewis & Clarke for exploring the river Missouri, & the best communication from that to the Pacific ocean, has had all the success which could have been expected.
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Nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye witness.
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I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.
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