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He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.
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 happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
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Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
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[T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution] has established . . . are the two sheet anchors of our Union. If driven from either, we shall be in danger of foundering.
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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
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The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.
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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
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The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it but it multiplied an influence of the same character with the first, and completed the supplanting the precious metals by a paper circulation. Between such parties the less we meddle the better.
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Never spend your money before you have earned it.
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He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
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A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the tree of Liberty needs the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
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The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.
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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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Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can when we cannot do all we would wish.
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I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance of self- government, which we have acquired and shaped for them.
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If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.
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I extremely believe in luck, and I discovered more hard work, your luck as much
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God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.
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