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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.
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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We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body
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If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.
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Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .
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Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.
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Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.
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To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense he wished any one to be sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others ascribing to himself every human excellence & believing he never claimed any other.
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Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.
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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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All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.
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While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.
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[T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution] has established . . . are the two sheet anchors of our Union. If driven from either, we shall be in danger of foundering.
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A little revolution is a good thing.
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Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.
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While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.
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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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The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.
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I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.
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From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.
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