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Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
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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To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of powers between the general [national] and particular [state] governments.
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Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles, and against this it is the duty of good citizens to be ever on the watch, and if the gangrene is to prevail at last, let the day be kept off as long as possible.
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Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state
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When the heart is right, the feet are swift.
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How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.
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the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.
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The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.
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Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.
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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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[T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution] has established . . . are the two sheet anchors of our Union. If driven from either, we shall be in danger of foundering.
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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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The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our political and religious freedom.
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My principles, and those always received by the republicans, do not admit to removing any person from office merely for a difference of political opinion. Malversations in office, and the exerting of official influence to control the freedom of election are good causes for removal.
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Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.
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The government you elect is the government you deserve.
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I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away.
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If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it.
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The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.
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Health is value greater than studying.
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