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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 neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.
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Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
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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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A good neighbor is a very desireable thing.
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I extremely believe in luck, and I discovered more hard work, your luck as much
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If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.
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Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.
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A little revolution is a good thing.
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A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in person, which would be impracticable beyond the limits of a city or small township, but by representatives chosen by himself and responsible to him at short periods.
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All the world would be Christian if they were taught the pure Gospel of Christ!.
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We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over.
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I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.
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That the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction and that a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under colour of that instrument, is the rightful remedy.
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The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and power into one body, no matter whether of the autocrats of Russia or France, or of the aristocrats of a Venetian senate.
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You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts. But it is an enthusiasm of which I am not ashamed, as its object is to improve the taste of my countrymen, to increase their reputation, to reconcile to them the respect of the world, and procure them its praise.
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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
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