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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.
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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Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.
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Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment ... inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
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The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes, should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives.
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The bloom of Monticello is chilled by my solitude.
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If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it.
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[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government.
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Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.
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An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.
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[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness.
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Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.
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Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap it will be dear to you.
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Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state
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Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God
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Power is not alluring to pure minds.
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Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
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