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Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.
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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I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
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When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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Those who would trade safety for freedom deserve neither.
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The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.
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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
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We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority.
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The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.
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Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.
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To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.
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No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.
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I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.
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Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous, etc. Consider every act of this kind as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties and increase your worth.
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While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.
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The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.
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