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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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Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits.
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One generation cannot bind another.
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If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.
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I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the judges may be suspected of bias, the jury undertake to decide both law and fact.
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[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.
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We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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Many are the exercises of power reserved to the States wherein a uniformity of proceeding would be advantageous to all. Such are quarantines, health laws, regulations of the press, banking institutions, training militia, etc., etc.
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None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army
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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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The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
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No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.
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Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.
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An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.
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The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.
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