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The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.
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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War is not the best engine for us to resort to nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly managed, will be a better instrument for obliging the interested nations of Europe to treat us with justice.
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The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.
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We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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[My] pillar of support through life.... I can say conscientiously that I do not know in the world a man of purer integrity, more dispassionate, disinterested, and devoted to genuine Republicanism nor could I in the whole scope of America and Europe point out an abler head.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
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Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.
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Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.
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Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.
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[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.
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The bloom of Monticello is chilled by my solitude.
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But of all the views of this law [universal education] none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.
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The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.
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We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced.
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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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Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.
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