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Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.
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 do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
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Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.
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The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.
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Ministers and merchants love nobody.
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What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.
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The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.
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The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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I am already sensible of decay in the power of walking, and find my memory not so faithful as it used to be. This may be partly owing to the incessant current of new matter flowing constantly through it but I ascribe to years their share in it also.
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I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.
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The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
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One man with courage is a majority.
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Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.
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When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.
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I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.
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An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.
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The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education.
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Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.
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Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.
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No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
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Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven.
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