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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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When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.
Thomas Jefferson
I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. I ask your indulgence for my own errors, which will never be intentional, and your support against the errors of others, who may condemn what they would not if seen in all its parts.
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Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country and by taking in those who are not so, the able part of the body have their hands tied by the unable.
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We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority.
Thomas Jefferson
The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.
Thomas Jefferson
The construction applied . . . to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power . . . ought not to be construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument.
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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
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The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.
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What i value more than all things, good humor.
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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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All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.
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Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.
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He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
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I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.
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My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ[.
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If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
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Never use two words when one will do.
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Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
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Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.
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The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick much the greatest proportion being of scantlingand boards, plastered with lime. It is impossible to devise things more ugly, uncomfortable, and happily more perishable.
Thomas Jefferson
