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We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government.
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 can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.
Thomas Jefferson
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous falacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty...
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean
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Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.
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Action will delineate and define you.
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History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.
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The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
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He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.
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I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.
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I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.
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While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.
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We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.
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One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.
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Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.
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Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.
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A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the tree of Liberty needs the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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The price of barbecue is eternal vigilance.
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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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I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid and I find myself much the happier.
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