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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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An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.
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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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I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.
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By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated.
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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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The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend.
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Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
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Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven.
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One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.
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The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
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The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.
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