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It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
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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What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliation, and above all things to let the love of our country soar above all minor passions, I tender you the assurance of my affectionate esteem and respect.
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Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.
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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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I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
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life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health.
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The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.
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I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.
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A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.
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No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
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Force cannot give right.
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I believe in both a creative and personal God, a divinely ordered universe, that man has an innate moral sense, and that Jesus was a great moral teacher, perhaps the greatest the world has witnessed.
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I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.
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If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon for what one so cheap to those of whose system of politics morality makes no part?
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The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but their true cause, the banking system
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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people.
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He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.
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