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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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Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word.
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I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.
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Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .
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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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[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.
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The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.
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