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Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.
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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Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
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I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.
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I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.
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The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its members would become despots.
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The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be used for their destruction. And certainly they would never consent to be so used were they not deceived. To avoid this they should be instructed to a certain degree.
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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.
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The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous falacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty...
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Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.
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To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement
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I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.
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