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I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man.

Thomas Jefferson

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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 equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.
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The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.
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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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Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that... we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverence, employ for the preservation of our liberties being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.
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Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus....I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus.
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The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.
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There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency.
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Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.
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Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.
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If the book be false in its facts, disprove them if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.
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Everything yields to diligence.
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The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.
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The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its members would become despots.
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