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An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.

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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It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their efforts in vain.
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Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand.
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The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.
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Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap it will be dear to you.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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no people can be both ignorant and free.
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While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.
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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
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All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.
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The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain.
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To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with ther purest motives, is something incorrect....No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
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You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts. But it is an enthusiasm of which I am not ashamed, as its object is to improve the taste of my countrymen, to increase their reputation, to reconcile to them the respect of the world, and procure them its praise.
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Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.
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If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi... in war, they will kill some of us we shall destroy them all.
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If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
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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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Free men do not ask permission to bear arms
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Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats of our country, I hold it as honorable to take a firm and decided part and as immoral to pursue a middle line, as between the parties of honest men and rogues, into which every country is divided.
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It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.
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I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.
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