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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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I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both
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A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
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An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
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An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.
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In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.
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Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.
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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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Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?
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The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.
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I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.
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The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.
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The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth.
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The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.
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No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.
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Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.
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In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended by their priests, and sometimes by a hen-pecked husband, they pour forth the effusions of their love to Jesus, in terms as amatory and carnal, as their modesty would permit them to use a mere earthly lover.
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The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
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A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
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What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
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