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An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.
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 shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. I ask your indulgence for my own errors, which will never be intentional, and your support against the errors of others, who may condemn what they would not if seen in all its parts.
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I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.
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I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man.
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the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.
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I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.
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Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility.
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Having labored faithfully in establishing the right of self-government, we see in the rising generation, into whose hands it is passing, that purity of principle and energy of character which will protect and preserve it through their day, and deliver it over to their sons as they receive it from their fathers.
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How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
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I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid and I find myself much the happier.
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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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The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.
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Female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them a solid education which might enable them, when become mothers, to educate their own daughters, and even to direct the course for sons, should their fathers be.
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Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.
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The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.
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