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Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle.
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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I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity as absolute and palpable as if Congress had ordered us to fall down and worship a golden image.
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If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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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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Louisiana, as ceded by France to the United States, is made a part of the United States its white inhabitants shall be citizens, and stand, as to their rights and obligations, on the same footing with other citizens of the United States, in analogous situations.
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History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men: it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume and knowing it, to defeat its views.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.
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The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.
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The federal government is our servant, not our master.
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He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.
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The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.
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