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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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the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.
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I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.
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His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is ... a demon of malignant spirit. It would be more pardonable to believe in no God at all, than to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin
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By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated.
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If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.
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A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.
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While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.
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No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa & America.
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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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The happiest hours of my life have been spent in the flow of affection among friends.
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Dependence leads to subservience.
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The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.
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I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase.
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The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.
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