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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 cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.
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[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.
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It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.
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The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.
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No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.
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I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
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Our people shall be free
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The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
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In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.
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I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.
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Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
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Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
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A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.
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The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth.
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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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The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.
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The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.
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Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
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A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism as to everything I see in a newspaper makes me indifferent whether I ever see one.
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