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The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.
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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Ministers and merchants love nobody.
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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.
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There are two amendments only which I am anxious for: 1. A bill of rights, which it is so much the interest of all to have that I conceive it must be yielded...2. The restoring of the principle of necessary rotation, particularly to the Senate and Presidency, but most of all to the last.
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It look like the lord just work for wite folks cause ever sens i wasn nothin but a litle boy i been on my on haulin water to the fiel on that ol water cart wit all them dime bukets an that dipper just hittin an old dorthy just trottin and trottin an me up their hittin her wit that rope.
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Dependence leads to subservience.
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What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.... [Instead] reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free enquiry must be indulged and how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse it ourselves?
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The soil is the gift of God to the living.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.
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When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state
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besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.
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One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.
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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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Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
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Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.
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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
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Our liberty depends on freedom of the press.
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Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.
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Every man has two countries: his own and France.
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An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.
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