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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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the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.
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Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can when we cannot do all we would wish.
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I believe we may lessen the danger of buying and selling votes, by making the number of voters too great for any means of purchase. I may further say that I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.
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Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state
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One man with courage is a majority.
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God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.
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To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with ther purest motives, is something incorrect....No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
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Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
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If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the judges may be suspected of bias, the jury undertake to decide both law and fact.
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It is Mortifying to suppose it possible that a people able and zealous to contend with the Enemy should be reduced to fold their Arms for want of the means of defence yet no resources that we know of, ensure us against this event.
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If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
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Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
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So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
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A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
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The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.
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The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.
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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
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