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Health is the requisite after morality
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 olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.
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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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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
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Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.
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I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.
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No man has done everything he can who has done only his best.
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I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
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When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.
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The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its members would become despots.
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The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights
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The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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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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That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
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Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantage.
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The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.
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The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.
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When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles every other correction is either useless or a new evil.
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How did Jefferson feel about the people of his day who were the equivalent of our modern day penecostals? You know, those revelation reveling tongue speaking idiots.
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The sun - my almighty physician.
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