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Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our Constitution, not to cherish its exercise even where in opposition to ourselves.
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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We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest.
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Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.
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No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his daughter, for consuming his substance in taverns ... in all these he has liberty but if he does not frequent the church, or then conform in ceremonies, there is an immediate uproar.
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Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of inextinguishable hatred for one another.
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One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
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I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. It is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrassments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions.
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The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.
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War is not the best engine for us to resort to nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly managed, will be a better instrument for obliging the interested nations of Europe to treat us with justice.
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The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.
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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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The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
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I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].
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To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with ther purest motives, is something incorrect....No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
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Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
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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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