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I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.
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 lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.
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Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy of an idea is condensed, or a word stands for a sentence, I hold grammatical rigor in contempt.
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The precepts of philosophy and of the Hebrew code, laid hold of actions only. (Jesus) pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man, erected his tribunal in the regions of his thoughts, and purified the waters at the fountain head.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.
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One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
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I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.
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I like to see the people awake and alert.
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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
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When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
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Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.
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