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Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.

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Thomas Jefferson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1743
Born: April 2
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
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If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.
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I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.
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The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.
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To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
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The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.
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Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
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The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.
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I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.
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With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the former subordinate to the latter. But this is not the case. They are co-ordinate departments of one simple and integral whole.
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So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own, where are all my friends, my relations, and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. Which would be your second choice? France.
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The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.
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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
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A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings.
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The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty.
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No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
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No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.
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We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
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If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.
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