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An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.

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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 am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.
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My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war but of its abolition I despair.
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While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open outrages of law and patriotism as dishonorable as they are injurious
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A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
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Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
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I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.
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The doctrines of Jesus are simple and tend all to the happiness of man, that there is only one God and God is perfect. That God and man are one. That to love God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself, is the sum of religion. These are the great points on which I endeavor to reform and live my life.
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I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.
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The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.
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What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
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