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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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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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The truth is, that the greatest enemies to the doctrines of Jesus are those, calling themselves the expositors of them, who have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely incomprehensible, and without any foundation in His genuine words.
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I hold it certain that to open the doors of truth and to fortify the habit of testing everything by reason are the most effectual manacles we can rivet on the hands of our successors to prevent their manacling the people with their own consent.
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Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
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The bloom of Monticello is chilled by my solitude.
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Men of energy of character must have enemies because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and acting on it with effect, those who take the other will of course be hostile in proportion as they feel that effect.
Thomas Jefferson
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only... If [free enquiry] be restrained now, the present corruptions will be protected, and new ones encouraged.
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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
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We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.
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I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.
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The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.
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The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have any turn for dissipation, threaten to make them here, as in Europe, the sinks of voluntary misery.
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For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.
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Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.
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Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.
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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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Louisiana, as ceded by France to the United States, is made a part of the United States its white inhabitants shall be citizens, and stand, as to their rights and obligations, on the same footing with other citizens of the United States, in analogous situations.
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The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.
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