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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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The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.
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The happiest hours of my life have been spent in the flow of affection among friends.
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The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
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I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance of self- government, which we have acquired and shaped for them.
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No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.
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Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.
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It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
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Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and power into one body, no matter whether of the autocrats of Russia or France, or of the aristocrats of a Venetian senate.
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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
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The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.
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An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.
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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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Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom she is rarely known and seldom welcome. She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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