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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 only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.
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As government grows, freedom recedes.
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When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.
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The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
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The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.
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May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.
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Wine brightens the life and thinking of anyone
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.
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Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word.
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Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.
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[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.
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The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.
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I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.
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The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain.
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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 Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should consider a conquest over the conscience of men either attainable or applicable to any desirable purpose.
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We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.
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Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.
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