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The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.
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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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
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When we consider how much climate contributes to the happiness of our condition, by the fine sensation it excites, and the productions it is the parent of, we have reason to value highly the accident of birth in such a one as that of Virginia.
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Our duty to ourselves, to posterity, and to mankind, call on us by every motive which is sacred or honorable, to watch over the safety of our beloved country during the troubles which agitate and convulse the residue of the world, and to sacrifice to that all personal and local considerations.
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As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution. It may indeed injure them in fame or in fortune but it saves the republic, which is the first and supreme law.
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If the book be false in its facts, disprove them if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.
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The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.
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A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion.
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A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings.
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Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.
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in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses of lectures, and I hope you will have reason to be contended with his capacity & character.
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I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.
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To draw around the whole nation the strength of the General Government as a barrier against foreign foes... is [one of the] functions of the General Government on which [our citizens] have a right to call.
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No person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six.
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If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
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It is always better to have no ideas than false ones to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
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Earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers, diligently to attend divine services.
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Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.
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