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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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It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent.
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Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.
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God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half, for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion.
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I have been happy . . . in believing that . . . whatever follies we may be led into as to foreign nations, we shall never give up our Union, the last anchor of our hope, and that alone which is to prevent this heavenly country from becoming an arena of gladiators.
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He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.
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The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.
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I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.
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Hemp is one of the greatest, most important substances of our nation
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Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.
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A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.
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Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.
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I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.
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But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
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I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half of the world fools and the other half Hypocrites
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The merchant has no country .
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We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced.
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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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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
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A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
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