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Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility.
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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Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature. Individuals exercise it by their single will collections of men by that of their majority for the law of the majority is the natural law of every society of men.
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Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.
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I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.
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Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today.
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To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.
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The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.
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If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the judges may be suspected of bias, the jury undertake to decide both law and fact.
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Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .
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I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
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Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
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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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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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The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.
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Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Wheather it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted with a brush, or sewn with a needle, it is a way of reaching for immortality.
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Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.
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Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.
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The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
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It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods.
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