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Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
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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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.
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They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes.
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The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.
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Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity. But is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature.
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As government grows, freedom recedes.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.
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To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.
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Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.
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The mass of our citizens may be divided into two classes -- the laboring and the learned. The laboring will need the first grade of education to qualify them for their pursuits and duties the learned will need it as a foundation for further acquirements.
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Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country and by taking in those who are not so, the able part of the body have their hands tied by the unable.
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Taste cannot be controlled by law.
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