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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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Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
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The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?
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On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.
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I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.
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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
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The expedition of Messrs. Lewis & Clarke for exploring the river Missouri, & the best communication from that to the Pacific ocean, has had all the success which could have been expected.
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Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.
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The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
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I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away.
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The merchant has no country .
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
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Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.
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Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.
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One generation cannot bind another.
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So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
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Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.
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Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.
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We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.
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All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution.
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