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Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.
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 man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
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Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.
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We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .
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Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
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Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.
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The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone.
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There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.
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I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.
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I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
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The doctrines of Jesus are simple and tend all to the happiness of man, that there is only one God and God is perfect. That God and man are one. That to love God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself, is the sum of religion. These are the great points on which I endeavor to reform and live my life.
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If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
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It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.
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The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.
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I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.
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I feel much alarmed at the prospect of seeing General Jackson President. He is the most unfit man I know for such a place.
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I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half of the world fools and the other half Hypocrites
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Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.
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We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body
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Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
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