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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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Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.
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My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ[.
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Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature. Individuals exercise it by their single will collections of men by that of their majority for the law of the majority is the natural law of every society of men.
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Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.
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Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
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A good neighbor is a very desireable thing.
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Government governed least is government governed best.
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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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The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.
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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
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From the dissensions among Sects themselves arise necessarily a right of choosing and necessity of deliberating to which we will conform. But if we choose for ourselves, we must allow others to choose also, and so reciprocally, this establishes religious liberty.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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Bigotry is the disease of ignorance.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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No society is so precious as that of one’s own family.
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The idea of creating a national bank I do not concur in, because it seems now decided that Congress has not that power (although I sincerely wish they had it exclusively), and because I think there is already a vast redundancy rather than a scarcity of paper medium.
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The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.
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A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean
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Delay is preferable to error.
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