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My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind
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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Of publishing a book on religion, my dear sir, I never had an idea. I should as soon think of writing for the reformation of Bedlam, as of the world of religious sects. Of these there must be, at least, ten thousand, every individual of every one of which believes all wrong but his own.
Thomas Jefferson
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
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Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.
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Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.
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I considered the British as our natural enemies, and as the only nation on earth who wished us ill from the bottom of their souls. And I am satisfied that were our continent to be swallowed up by the ocean, Great Britain would be in a bonfire from one end to the other.
Thomas Jefferson
No man has done everything he can who has done only his best.
Thomas Jefferson
A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism as to everything I see in a newspaper makes me indifferent whether I ever see one.
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Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any immediate solution to the problem.
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The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.
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I never before knew the full value of trees....What would I not give that the trees planted nearest round the house at Monticello were full grown.
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A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.
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Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.
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Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?
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To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.
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The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.
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If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.
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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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Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities.
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