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Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.
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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Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our Constitution, not to cherish its exercise even where in opposition to ourselves.
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To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should consider a conquest over the conscience of men either attainable or applicable to any desirable purpose.
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Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
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Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.
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Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.
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By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against monopolies, trial by juries in all cases, no suspensions of the habeas corpus, no standing armies. These are fetters against doing evil which no honest government should decline.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase.
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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
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Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His will a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support.
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What i value more than all things, good humor.
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The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.
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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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When the heart is right, the feet are swift.
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I never before knew the full value of trees....What would I not give that the trees planted nearest round the house at Monticello were full grown.
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Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.
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I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.
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