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The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.
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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Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
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For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.
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I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.
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By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated.
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If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi... in war, they will kill some of us we shall destroy them all.
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Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.
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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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No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.
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When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
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The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.
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An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.
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I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.
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Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?
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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 generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them
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May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.
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