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The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.
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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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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The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.
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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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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
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The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.
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The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.
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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest.
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Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.
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A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.
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I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.
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Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day, assured that the public approbation will in the end be with us.
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It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.
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I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.
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Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word.
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I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.
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