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In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.
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 apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.
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I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.
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Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.
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It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.
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I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.
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I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude
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To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.
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An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.
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Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature.
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Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us.
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For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.
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Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.
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Nothing can now be believed that is seen in a newspaper.
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