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The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.

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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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We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .
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It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the state to effect, and on a general plan.
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I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.
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For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
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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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Those who would trade safety for freedom deserve neither.
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Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.
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Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.
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It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.
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The precepts of philosophy and of the Hebrew code, laid hold of actions only. (Jesus) pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man, erected his tribunal in the regions of his thoughts, and purified the waters at the fountain head.
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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
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It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent.
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I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.
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The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.
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There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of any parish in America.
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Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.
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It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.
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Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
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