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Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
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 mass of our citizens may be divided into two classes -- the laboring and the learned. The laboring will need the first grade of education to qualify them for their pursuits and duties the learned will need it as a foundation for further acquirements.
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A mind always employed is always happy.
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I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.
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Turning, then, from this loathsome combination of church and state, and weeping over the follies of our fellow men, who yield themselves the willing dupes and drudges of these mountebanks, I consider reformation and redress as desperate, and abandon them to the Quixotism of more enthusiastic minds.
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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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I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].
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Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature. Individuals exercise it by their single will collections of men by that of their majority for the law of the majority is the natural law of every society of men.
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Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
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Bigotry is the disease of ignorance.
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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
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I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
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All authority belongs to the people.
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One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
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The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.
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An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.
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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
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I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away.
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It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.
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Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
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Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom she is rarely known and seldom welcome. She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men.
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