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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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Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.
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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.
Thomas Jefferson
The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.
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Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.
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When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
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One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.
Thomas Jefferson
Our liberty depends on freedom of the press.
Thomas Jefferson
Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war but of its abolition I despair.
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Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.
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No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
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Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace
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Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.
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I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common fire-arms. I did not suppose any part of the United States so destitute of what is considered as among the first necessaries of a farm-house.
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Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.
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Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy of an idea is condensed, or a word stands for a sentence, I hold grammatical rigor in contempt.
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Public offices were not made for private convenience.
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Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.
Thomas Jefferson
Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
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The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.
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