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What we learn to do, we learn by doing.

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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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My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.
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I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.
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Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.
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I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance of self- government, which we have acquired and shaped for them.
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Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country
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From the dissensions among Sects themselves arise necessarily a right of choosing and necessity of deliberating to which we will conform. But if we choose for ourselves, we must allow others to choose also, and so reciprocally, this establishes religious liberty.
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To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
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God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.
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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
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Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom she is rarely known and seldom welcome. She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men.
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It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.
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Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . . . worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens.
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I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs.
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One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
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When we consider how much climate contributes to the happiness of our condition, by the fine sensation it excites, and the productions it is the parent of, we have reason to value highly the accident of birth in such a one as that of Virginia.
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It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.
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Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.
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