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Music...This is the favorite passion of my soul.
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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Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please.
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Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it.
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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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I have sworn upon the altar of god.
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I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.
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I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.
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The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its members would become despots.
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Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality
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Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.
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From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.
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Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.
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I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. It is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrassments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions.
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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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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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I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.
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The most effective way to find ourselves enslaved will not be done openly. If weakened we will sink gradually. I ask, who are the militia? They consist of the whole people, .... except a few public officers.
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And, in general, that branch which is to act ultimately and without appeal on any law is the rightful expositor of the validity of the law, uncontrolled by the opinions of the other coordinate authorities.
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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
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The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.
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The mass of the citizens is the safest depositary of their own rights.
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