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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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All we can do is to make the best of our friends, love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the way what is bad.
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I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.
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My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ[.
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I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.
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Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
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I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common fire-arms. I did not suppose any part of the United States so destitute of what is considered as among the first necessaries of a farm-house.
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Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.
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What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
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A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]
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Religions are all the same...Based upon legends and fantasies
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Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our Constitution, not to cherish its exercise even where in opposition to ourselves.
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[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom whichwould be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.
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Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.
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Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor.
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