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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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Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
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Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their opposites, peace, economy, and riddance of public debt, believing that these were the high road to public as well as private prosperity and happiness.
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I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.
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Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.
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It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most.
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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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An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.
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The colleges of Edinburgh and Geneva as seminaries of science, are considered as the two eyes of Europe. While Great Britain and America give the preference to the former, all other countries give it to the latter.
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Men fight for freedom then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. The Europeans value themselves on having subdued the horse to the uses of man but I doubt whether we have not lost more than we have gained, by the use of this animal.
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The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.
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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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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
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Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
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In reviewing the history of the times through which we have passed, no portion of it gives greater satisfaction or reflection, than that which represents the efforts of the friends of religious freedom and the success with which they are crowned.
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Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.
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It has been thought that the people are not competent electors of judges learned in the law. But I do not know this to be true, and, if doubtful, we should follow principle.
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While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.
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Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
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Should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price.
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