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The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.
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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Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.
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It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.
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We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists
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There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.
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But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. Is this a proof of the infallibility of establishments?
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A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.
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I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.
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I believe we may lessen the danger of buying and selling votes, by making the number of voters too great for any means of purchase. I may further say that I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.
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Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
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