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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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I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.
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I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common fire-arms. I did not suppose any part of the United States so destitute of what is considered as among the first necessaries of a farm-house.
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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.
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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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Our liberty depends on freedom of the press.
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The soil is the gift of God to the living.
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[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
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It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
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I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude
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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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Nothing is so engaging as the little domestic cares into which you appear to be entering, and as to reading it is useful for onlyfilling up the chinks of more useful and healthy occupations.
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Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
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Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
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