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The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend.
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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It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to judge the law as well as the fact. They never exercise this power but when they suspect partiality in the judges and by the exercise of this power they have been the firmest bulwarks of English liberty.
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The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.
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Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
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The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].
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The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.
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[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.
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Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.
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Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.
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