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Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in the moon or planets. They had heard only that there were such, and knew that they must be wrong.
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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Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom she is rarely known and seldom welcome. She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men.
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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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Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious beliefs than they are dependent upon our thoughts about geometry or physics!
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Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
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The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.
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Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
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All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.
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the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.
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Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that... we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverence, employ for the preservation of our liberties being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.
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We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation.
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Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.
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Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses.
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If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of affection.
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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
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Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
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