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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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Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.
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No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.
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Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.
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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
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Truth between candid minds can never do harm.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.
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The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.
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[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.
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Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
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An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch.
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