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The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.
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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Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles, and against this it is the duty of good citizens to be ever on the watch, and if the gangrene is to prevail at last, let the day be kept off as long as possible.
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The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.
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As government grows, freedom recedes.
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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
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Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
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To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.
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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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To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
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I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.
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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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He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.
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Religions are all the same...Based upon legends and fantasies
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Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve us free and prosperous as long as they are sacredly observed.
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I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.
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It is better to have no ideas than false ones.
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We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.
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Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses.
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Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.
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He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.
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