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The soil is the gift of God to the living.
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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For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.
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The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.
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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.
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Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
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The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.
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[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired] This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the care and admonition of a guardian demon. And how many of our wisest men still believe in the reality of these inspirations while perfectly sane on all other subjects
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Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.
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Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.
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In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended by their priests, and sometimes by a hen-pecked husband, they pour forth the effusions of their love to Jesus, in terms as amatory and carnal, as their modesty would permit them to use a mere earthly lover.
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Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.
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I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.
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The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.
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I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.
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No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
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The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
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For St. Paul only says that it is better to be married than to burn. Now I presume that if that apostle had known that providence would at an after day be so kind to any particular set of people as to furnish them with other means of extinguishing their fire than those of matrimony, he would have earnestly recmmended them to their practice.
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Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.
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Nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye witness.
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Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity. But is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature.
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Religions are all the same...Based upon legends and fantasies
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