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The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
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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A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.
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Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
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To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with ther purest motives, is something incorrect....No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
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The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
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... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.
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Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.
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Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
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I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian.
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I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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It is Mortifying to suppose it possible that a people able and zealous to contend with the Enemy should be reduced to fold their Arms for want of the means of defence yet no resources that we know of, ensure us against this event.
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The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.
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The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.
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The variety of opinions leads to questions. Questions lead to truth.
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Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.
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We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.
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