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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 information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our political and religious freedom.
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Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus.
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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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We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.
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No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.
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Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace
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Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
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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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The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
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I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away.
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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
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Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.
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I am sure the man who powders most, perfumes most, embroiders most, and talks most nonsense, is most admired. Though to be candid, there are some who have too much good sense to esteem such monkey-like animals as these, in whose formation, as the saying is, the tailors and barbers go halves with God Almighty.
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You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts.
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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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I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing.
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For St. Paul only says that it is better to be married than to burn. Now I presume that if that apostle had known that providence would at an after day be so kind to any particular set of people as to furnish them with other means of extinguishing their fire than those of matrimony, he would have earnestly recmmended them to their practice.
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The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
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Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.
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