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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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We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
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Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.
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While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.
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I was much an enemy to monarchies before I came to Europe. I am ten thousand times more so, since I have seen what they are. There is scarcely an evil known in these countries, which may not be traced to their king, as its source, nor a good, which is not derived from the small fibres of republicanism existing among them.
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Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ[.
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Our ancient laws expressly declare that those who are but delegates themselves shall not delegate to others powers which require judgment and integrity in their exercise.
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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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Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.
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