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the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.
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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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his daughter, for consuming his substance in taverns ... in all these he has liberty but if he does not frequent the church, or then conform in ceremonies, there is an immediate uproar.
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What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.... [Instead] reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free enquiry must be indulged and how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse it ourselves?
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The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many.
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Never use two words when one will do.
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We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
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Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.
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The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the ways of evil, evil wins.
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Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?
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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. The Europeans value themselves on having subdued the horse to the uses of man but I doubt whether we have not lost more than we have gained, by the use of this animal.
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I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.
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Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.
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I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. It is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrassments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions.
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Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
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It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.
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If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.
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the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind
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No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.
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The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.
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