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Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.
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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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not better.
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The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.
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The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.
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It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most.
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If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.
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The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
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The happiest hours of my life have been spent in the flow of affection among friends.
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.
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Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.
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The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.
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While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?
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When the heart is right, the feet are swift.
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I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.
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Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.
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Men fight for freedom then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
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I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man.
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The provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves they answer the substantial purposes of government and of justice, and other purposes than these should not be answered.
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We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.
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Of publishing a book on religion, my dear sir, I never had an idea. I should as soon think of writing for the reformation of Bedlam, as of the world of religious sects. Of these there must be, at least, ten thousand, every individual of every one of which believes all wrong but his own.
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