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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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The precepts of philosophy and of the Hebrew code, laid hold of actions only. (Jesus) pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man, erected his tribunal in the regions of his thoughts, and purified the waters at the fountain head.
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Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.
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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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If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.
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Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy of an idea is condensed, or a word stands for a sentence, I hold grammatical rigor in contempt.
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They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes.
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One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
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The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one.
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Having always observed that public works are much less advantageously managed than the same are by private hands, I have thought it better for the public to go to market for whatever it wants which is to be found there for there competition brings it down to the minimum value.
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I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.
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For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
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Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.
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We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government.
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Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]
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From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.
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Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.
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When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
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