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All the world would be Christian if they were taught the pure Gospel of Christ!.
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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I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.
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With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the former subordinate to the latter. But this is not the case. They are co-ordinate departments of one simple and integral whole.
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Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.
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The expedition of Messrs. Lewis & Clarke for exploring the river Missouri, & the best communication from that to the Pacific ocean, has had all the success which could have been expected.
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Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.
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It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most.
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Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.
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I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.
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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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Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.
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I hold it certain that to open the doors of truth and to fortify the habit of testing everything by reason are the most effectual manacles we can rivet on the hands of our successors to prevent their manacling the people with their own consent.
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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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In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.
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Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers.
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Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw formed by a contour of mountains into a basin... finely interspersed with islands, its water limpid as crystal, and the mountain sides covered with rich groves... down to the water-edge: here and there precipices of rock to checker the scene and save it from monotony.
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Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
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Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.
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