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Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap it will be dear to you.
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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When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state
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I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.
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Many are the exercises of power reserved to the States wherein a uniformity of proceeding would be advantageous to all. Such are quarantines, health laws, regulations of the press, banking institutions, training militia, etc., etc.
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When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.
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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
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The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.
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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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It has been thought that the people are not competent electors of judges learned in the law. But I do not know this to be true, and, if doubtful, we should follow principle.
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The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty.
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Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.
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No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.
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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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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
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The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man
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The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
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We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.
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