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The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.
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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The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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The Bible makes the best people in the world.
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No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.
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The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.
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We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.
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the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind
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It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.
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Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
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