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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 genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.
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The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.
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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. The Europeans value themselves on having subdued the horse to the uses of man but I doubt whether we have not lost more than we have gained, by the use of this animal.
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The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.
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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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I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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The truth is, that the greatest enemies to the doctrines of Jesus are those, calling themselves the expositors of them, who have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely incomprehensible, and without any foundation in His genuine words.
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Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself.
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Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.
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It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.
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Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.
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Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.
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We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.
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Men of energy of character must have enemies because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and acting on it with effect, those who take the other will of course be hostile in proportion as they feel that effect.
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If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon for what one so cheap to those of whose system of politics morality makes no part?
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The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.
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What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
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Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
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Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.
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