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Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun.
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 Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.
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An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.
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Nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye witness.
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Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.
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The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.
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The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.
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Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
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A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.
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In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.
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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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When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.
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Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.
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My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind
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