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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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No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.
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I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
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I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.
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I am already sensible of decay in the power of walking, and find my memory not so faithful as it used to be. This may be partly owing to the incessant current of new matter flowing constantly through it but I ascribe to years their share in it also.
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As government grows, freedom recedes.
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Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.
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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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Our bills shall not be killed.
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I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. It is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrassments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions.
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The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.
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I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.
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The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.
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A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.
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How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
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Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.
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All the world would be Christian if they were taught the pure Gospel of Christ!.
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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
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Health is worth more than learning.
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Question with boldness even the existence of a god.
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What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and power into one body, no matter whether of the autocrats of Russia or France, or of the aristocrats of a Venetian senate.
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