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All authority belongs to the people.
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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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
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But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.
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He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
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Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.
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I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.
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Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day, assured that the public approbation will in the end be with us.
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We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation.
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Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any immediate solution to the problem.
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The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.
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If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
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The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
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Music...This is the favorite passion of my soul.
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During the late war I had an infallible rule for deciding what Great Britain would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they ought to do, and to take the reverse of that as what they would assuredly do, and I can say with truth that I was never deceived.
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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
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I leave to others the sublime delights of riding in the storm, better pleased with sound sleep & a warmer berth below it encircled, with the society of neighbors, friends & fellow laborers of the earth rather than with spies & sycophants ... I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office.
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The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.
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An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.
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Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
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There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.
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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
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