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The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
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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Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap it will be dear to you.
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Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
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If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.
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