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Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality
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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While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.
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To draw around the whole nation the strength of the General Government as a barrier against foreign foes... is [one of the] functions of the General Government on which [our citizens] have a right to call.
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I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.
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It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.
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Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.
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A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.
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The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education.
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I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].
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We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.
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Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.
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A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
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If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
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Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.
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A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.
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If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.
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The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.
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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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Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?
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We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.
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What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.
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