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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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I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity as absolute and palpable as if Congress had ordered us to fall down and worship a golden image.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
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Nothing can now be believed that is seen in a newspaper.
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A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law.
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It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.
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Nothing but a necessity invincible by any other means can justify ... a prostitution of laws, which constitute the pillars of our whole system of jurisprudence.
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...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.
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Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.
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I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.
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Perfection in wisdom, as well as in integrity, is neither required nor expected in these agents (public servants). It belongs not to man. The wise know too well their weaknesses to assume infallibility and he who knows most, knows best how little he knows.
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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
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In a virtuous and free state, no rewards can be so pleasing to sensible minds, as those which include the approbation of our fellow citizens. My great pain is, lest my poor endeavours should fall short of the kind expectations of my country.
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War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
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Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.
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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
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the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity. But is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature.
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All we can do is to make the best of our friends, love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the way what is bad.
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