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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
3Rd U.S. President
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We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists
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Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day, assured that the public approbation will in the end be with us.
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I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.
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We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority.
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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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Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.
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A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.
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Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven.
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I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
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[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
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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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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.
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An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.
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Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
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No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
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The dead should not rule the living
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But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed.
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never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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