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One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

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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 way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
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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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[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.
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The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.
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If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over.
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The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require that force should be interposed to a certain degree.
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The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.
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The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.
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Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
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By [the] operations [of public improvement] new channels of communication will be opened between the States the lines of separation will disappear, their interests will be identified, and their union cemented by new and indissoluble ties.
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I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages for though there is less wealth there, there is more freedom, more ease, and less misery.
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Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.
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Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.
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Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.
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the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.
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When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.
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The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.
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I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.
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The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.
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What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.
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