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Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision

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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The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.
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To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
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Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.
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History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.
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The doctrines of Jesus are simple and tend all to the happiness of man, that there is only one God and God is perfect. That God and man are one. That to love God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself, is the sum of religion. These are the great points on which I endeavor to reform and live my life.
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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
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I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing.
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One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
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