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We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
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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If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice of place as well as mode, and we may safely call on the whole body of English jurists to produce the map on which nature has traced for each individual the geographical line which she forbids him to cross in pursuit of happiness.
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The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.
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But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed.
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As government grows, freedom recedes.
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A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism as to everything I see in a newspaper makes me indifferent whether I ever see one.
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A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
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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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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
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All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.
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The construction applied . . . to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power . . . ought not to be construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument.
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Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
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The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our political and religious freedom.
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