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Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.
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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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
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When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Everything yields to diligence.
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The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.
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If the book be false in its facts, disprove them if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.
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The federal government is our servant, not our master.
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It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.
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