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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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The provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves they answer the substantial purposes of government and of justice, and other purposes than these should not be answered.
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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
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The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.
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Should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price.
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I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
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The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.
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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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Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state
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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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When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.
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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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What we learn to do, we learn by doing.
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Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand.
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Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.
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We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.
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We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.
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Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in the moon or planets. They had heard only that there were such, and knew that they must be wrong.
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