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The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.
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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The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen states in the course of eleven years, is but one for each state in a century and a half. No country should be so long without one. Nor will any degree of power in the hands of government prevent insurrections.
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Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue.
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Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.
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One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.
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Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today.
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No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa & America.
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Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.
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When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.
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Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.
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It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the state to effect, and on a general plan.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious beliefs than they are dependent upon our thoughts about geometry or physics!
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Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.
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An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch.
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