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The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.
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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An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.
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The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
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This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be done by revolution. It is also the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man and improving him as a rational, moral, and social being.
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At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about a public debt being a public blessing that the stock representing it was a creation of active capital for the aliment of commerce, manufactures and agriculture. This paradox was well adapted to the minds of believers in dreams.
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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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Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself.
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It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we have found it better to trust the public judgment, rather than the magistrate, with the discrimination between truth and falsehood. And hitherto the public judgment has performed that office with wonderful correctness.
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Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.
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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
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I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures.
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One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.
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Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.
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To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.
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A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean
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It is always better to have no ideas than false ones to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
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Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.
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Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.
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The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.
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