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Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality
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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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The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.
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God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting honestly towards all, benevolently to those who fall within our way, respecting sacredly their rights, bodily and mental, and cherishing especially their freedom of conscience, as we value our own.
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Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.
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Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
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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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Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country and by taking in those who are not so, the able part of the body have their hands tied by the unable.
Thomas Jefferson
The provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves they answer the substantial purposes of government and of justice, and other purposes than these should not be answered.
Thomas Jefferson
An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.
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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. The Europeans value themselves on having subdued the horse to the uses of man but I doubt whether we have not lost more than we have gained, by the use of this animal.
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The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education.
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All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.
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Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.
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My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ[.
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The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.
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Every man has two countries: his own and France.
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Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.
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If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
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Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
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Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses.
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Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.
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