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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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Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.
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Government governed least is government governed best.
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Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.
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I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.
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Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
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Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.
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Nothing is so engaging as the little domestic cares into which you appear to be entering, and as to reading it is useful for onlyfilling up the chinks of more useful and healthy occupations.
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We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.
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The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.
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I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.
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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
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Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw formed by a contour of mountains into a basin... finely interspersed with islands, its water limpid as crystal, and the mountain sides covered with rich groves... down to the water-edge: here and there precipices of rock to checker the scene and save it from monotony.
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What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.
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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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The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More money is now paid for the education of a part than would be paid for that of the whole if systematically arranged.
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the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
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I never before knew the full value of trees....What would I not give that the trees planted nearest round the house at Monticello were full grown.
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It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.
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I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.
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