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The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.
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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In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.
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I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid and I find myself much the happier.
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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
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In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue.
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If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.
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I like to see the people awake and alert.
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Health is worth more than learning.
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Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.
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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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Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.
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It is better to have no ideas than false ones.
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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 superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.
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The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.
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I believe in both a creative and personal God, a divinely ordered universe, that man has an innate moral sense, and that Jesus was a great moral teacher, perhaps the greatest the world has witnessed.
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Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.
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