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Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature.
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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My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind
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When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.
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I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.
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An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.
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Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .
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The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
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It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.
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Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only... If [free enquiry] be restrained now, the present corruptions will be protected, and new ones encouraged.
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Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace
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A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism as to everything I see in a newspaper makes me indifferent whether I ever see one.
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To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
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No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination.
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It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one.
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Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.
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The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.
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It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.
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The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights
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Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
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