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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.
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 a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the State to be troubled with it.
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To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.
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From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.
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The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights
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The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.
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I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs.
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never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
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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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For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
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Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.
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The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.
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Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.
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It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.
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Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.
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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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We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
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Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
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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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