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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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Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.
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The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].
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The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.
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Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.
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It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.
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The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.
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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest.
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If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.
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Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
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Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.
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Hemp is one of the greatest, most important substances of our nation
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Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.
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The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.
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Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
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