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Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.

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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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A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in happiness. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.
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Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the former subordinate to the latter. But this is not the case. They are co-ordinate departments of one simple and integral whole.
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Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man.
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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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Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any immediate solution to the problem.
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Never spend your money before you have earned it.
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One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.
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in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses of lectures, and I hope you will have reason to be contended with his capacity & character.
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I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.
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No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.
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Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.
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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
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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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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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