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None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army
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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So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
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Every generation needs a new revolution.
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Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in the moon or planets. They had heard only that there were such, and knew that they must be wrong.
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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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A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.
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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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The best (remedy) I can devise would be to give future commissions to (federal) judges for six years with a re-appointability by the President with the approbation of both houses. If this would not be independence enough, I know not what would be.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.
Thomas Jefferson
The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.
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Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day, assured that the public approbation will in the end be with us.
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My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ[.
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Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.
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The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.
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The happiest hours of my life have been spent in the flow of affection among friends.
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The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?
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The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require that force should be interposed to a certain degree.
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The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.
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Those are governed best who are governed least.
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On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.
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