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One had rather have no opinion than a false one.
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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The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.
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I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
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It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
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He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
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Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
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I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.
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The federal government is our servant, not our master.
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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
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I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.
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Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should consider a conquest over the conscience of men either attainable or applicable to any desirable purpose.
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I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.
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We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them
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Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.
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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
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