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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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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
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The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.
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A little revolution is a good thing.
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Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.
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Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.
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Ministers and merchants love nobody.
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.
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Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please.
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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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What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.
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If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.
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