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No man has done everything he can who has done only his best.

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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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Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.
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Can one generation bind another, and all others, in succession forever? I think not. The Creator has made the earth for the living, not the dead. Rights and powers can only belong to persons, not to things, not to mere matter endowed with will...Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
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Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.
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The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.
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The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.
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For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.
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Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.
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By nature's law, man is at peace with man till some aggression is committed, which, by the same law, authorizes one to destroy another as his enemy.
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Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace
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Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.
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Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God
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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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And, in general, that branch which is to act ultimately and without appeal on any law is the rightful expositor of the validity of the law, uncontrolled by the opinions of the other coordinate authorities.
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Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.
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I do not like [in the new Federal Constitution] the omission of a Bill of Rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for... protection against standing armies
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Truth between candid minds can never do harm.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.
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Bigotry is the disease of ignorance.
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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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Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
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