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Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.
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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But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
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I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.
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All the world would be Christian if they were taught the pure Gospel of Christ!.
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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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I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.
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Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.
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Shake hands with Pain, give greeting unto Grief, Those angels in disguise, and thy glad soul From height to height, from star to shining star, Shall climb and claim blest immortality.
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The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend.
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Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.
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