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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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I was much an enemy to monarchies before I came to Europe. I am ten thousand times more so, since I have seen what they are. There is scarcely an evil known in these countries, which may not be traced to their king, as its source, nor a good, which is not derived from the small fibres of republicanism existing among them.
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Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.
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The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.
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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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My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ[.
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Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.
Thomas Jefferson
May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.
Thomas Jefferson
The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have any turn for dissipation, threaten to make them here, as in Europe, the sinks of voluntary misery.
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The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
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We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest.
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While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open outrages of law and patriotism as dishonorable as they are injurious
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Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.
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Music...This is the favorite passion of my soul.
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If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.
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I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.
Thomas Jefferson
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.
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When a uniform exercise of kindness to prisoners on our part has been returned by as uniform severity on the part of our enemies,you must excuse me for saying it is high time, by other lessons, to teach respect to the dictates of humanity in such a case, retaliation becomes an act of benevolence.
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Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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