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I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians.
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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You have never by a word or a deed given me one moment's uneasiness on the contrary I have felt perpetual gratitude to heaven forhaving given me, in you, a source of so much pure and unmixed happiness.
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I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.
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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 most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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