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War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
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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I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia...and...with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point.
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I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.
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One had rather have no opinion than a false one.
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A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.
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I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
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The variety of opinions leads to questions. Questions lead to truth.
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Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
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Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
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When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.
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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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Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.
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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest.
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Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits.
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